Skip to content
You are not logged in |Login  
     
Limit search to available items
Book Cover
Bestseller
BestsellerE-Book
Author Goble, Mark.

Title Beautiful circuits : modernism and the mediated life / Mark Goble.

Publication Info. New York : Columbia University Press, [2010]
©2010

Copies

Location Call No. Status
 Rocky Hill - Downloadable Materials  EBSCO Ebook    Downloadable
Rocky Hill cardholders click here to access this title from EBSCO
Description 1 online resource (xiii, 374 pages) : illustrations
Summary Mark Goble revisits the aesthetics of modernism in the early twentieth century, when new modes of communication made the experience of technology an occasion for profound experimentation and reflection. Goble shows how the assimilation of such "old" media technologies as the telegraph, telephone, and phonograph inspired fantasies of connection that informed a commitment to the materiality of artistic mediums. Describing how relationships made possible by technology became more powerfully experienced with technology, Goble explores a modernist fetish for media that shows no signs of abating. The "mediated life" puts technology into communication with a series of shifts in how Americans conceived the mechanics and meanings of their connections to one another, to the world, and to their own modernity. Considering texts by Henry James, Gertrude Stein, James Weldon Johnson, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ralph Ellison, Richard Wright, James Agee, and William Carlos Williams, alongside film, painting, music, and popular culture, Beautiful Circuits explores American modernism as it was shaped by a response to high technology and an attempt to change how literature itself could communicate.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Introduction: "communications now are love" -- Pleasure at a distance in Henry James and others -- Love and noise -- Soundtracks: modernism, fidelity, race -- The new permanent record -- Epilogue: looking back at mediums.
Note Print version record.
Subject Mass media and literature -- United States.
American literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
Mass media and culture -- United States.
Interpersonal communication -- Technological innovations -- Social aspects -- United States.
Social interaction -- Technological innovations -- United States.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Media Studies.
PERFORMING ARTS -- Film & Video -- History & Criticism.
littérature américaine (Etats-Unis) -- modernité -- 20e s. (1ère moitié)
littérature américaine (Etats-Unis) -- technologie -- 20e s. (1ère moitié)
Other Form: Print version: Goble, Mark. Beautiful circuits. New York : Columbia University Press, ©2010 9780231146708 (DLC) 2009053416 (OCoLC)495597268
ISBN 9780231518406 (electronic bk.)
0231518404 (electronic bk.)
-->
Add a Review