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Popular Modernism and Its Legacies Popular Modernism and Its Legacies From Pop Literature to Video Games Edited by Scott Ortolano With an Afterword by Faye Hammill BLOOMSBURY ACADEMIC Bloomsbury Publishing Inc 1385 Broadway, New York, NY 10018, USA 50 Bedford Square, London, WC1B 3DP, UK BLOOMSBURY, BLOOMSBURY ACADEMIC and the Diana logo are trademarks of Bloomsbury Publishing Plc First published 2018 Paperback edition ﬁ rst published 2019 Copyright © Scott Ortolano and Contributors, 2018 For legal purposes the Acknowledgments on p. xi constitute an extension of this copyright page. Cover design by Emma J. Hardy Cover image © iStock All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, or any information storage or retrieval system, without prior permission in writing from the publishers. Bloomsbury Publishing Inc does not have any control over, or responsibility for, any third-party websites referred to or in this book. All internet addresses given in this book were correct at the time of going to press. The author and publisher regret any inconvenience caused if addresses have changed or sites have ceased to exist, but can accept no responsibility for any such changes. A catalog record for this book is available from the Library of Congress. ISBN: HB: 978-1-5013-2511-3 PB: 978-1-5013-5459-5 ePDF: 978-1-5013-2513-7 eBook: 978-1-5013-2512-0 Typeset by Fakenham Prepress Solutions, Fakenham, Norfolk NR21 8NN To ﬁ nd out more about our authors and books visit www.bloomsbury.com and sign up for our newsletters. For my wife and best friend, Michelle, and my daughter, Lila, who inspire me every day to prove myself worthy of their love. CONTENTS List of illustrations ix Acknowledgments xi Introduction Of Titanics, wars, downturns, and Downtons: Popular modernism and its legacies Scott Ortolano 1 Part 1 New Visions of Popular Modernism 1 Gentry modernism: Cultural connoisseurship and midcentury masculinity, 1951–1957 Marsha Bryant 19 2 Modernism, operetta, and Ruritania: Ivor Novello’s Glamorous Night Nicholas Daly 45 3 Fine art on the airwaves: Radio drama and modern(ist) mass culture Adam Nemmers 63 4 “I’m gonna be somebody,” 1930: Gangsters and modernist celebrity Jonathan Goldman 79 5 Charlie Chaplin, Walter Benjamin, and the redemption of the city Barry J. Faulk 95 Part 2 Legacies of Popular Modernism 6 “Catch a wave”: Surf noir and modernist nostalgia Kirk Curnutt 113 viii CONTENTS 7 Alien pleasures: Modernism/hybridity/science fiction Paul March-Russell 133 8 Josephine Baker’s contemporary afterlives: Black female identity, modernist performance, and popular legacies of the Jazz Age Asimina Ino Nikolopoulou 149 9 A hitchhiker’s guide to modernism: The futuristic Fordisms of Aldous Huxley, Brian O’Nolan, and Douglas Adams Andrew V. McFeaters 165 Part 3 Resonances of Popular Modernism in the Twenty-First Century 10 Smokescreens to smokestacks: True Detective and the American sublime Caroline Blinder 183 11 Of modernist second acts and African-American lives: F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Wire, and the struggle against lockdown Walter Bosse 203 12 Don Draper’s identity crisis and Mad Men’s modernist masculinity Camelia Raghinaru 217 13 A century of reading time: From modernist novels to contemporary comics Aimee Armande Wilson 231 14 Hemingway’s console: Memory and ethics in the modernist video game Dustin Anderson 247 Afterword, Faye Hammill 263 Notes on contributors 267 Index 271