| British Writers and the Media, 1930-45 1996 Edition Contributor(s): Williams, Keith (Author) |
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ISBN: 0333638964 ISBN-13: 9780333638965 Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan OUR PRICE: $47.49 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: March 1996 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | Modern - 20th Century - Social Science | Media Studies - Social Science | Sociology - General |
| Dewey: 820.900 |
| LCCN: 96004326 |
| Physical Information: 0.67" H x 5.5" W x 8.5" (0.84 lbs) 284 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - British Isles - Chronological Period - 20th Century |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Richly informative about a host of writers from Auden to Priestley, and theoretically informed, this wide-ranging new study demonstrates that the 1930s, remembered usually for uncomplicated political engagement, can rather be seen as initiating the key elements of postmodernism, developing the individual's sense of elsewhere' through new technology of representation and propaganda. Keith Williams analyses the relationship between the leftist writers of the decade and the mass-media, showing how newspapers, radio and film were treated in their writing and how they radically reshaped its forms, assumptions and imagery. |