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Cross-Currents of Influences Literary Cross-overs  \nWhat is the Relation of Modernism to Primitivism?  \nIs Primitivism Ethnocentric? Expressionist Primitivism Primitivism in Literature  \nWhat is the Relation of Modernism to Psychoanalysis? The Primitivism of Sigmund Freud  \nFreud’s Influence  \nHow Did Freud “Filter Through”?  \nThe Century’s Greatest Listener … Psychoanalysis and Surrealism The Birth of Surrealism by Manifesto“The Impossible Dream”  \nThe “Dream Factory”  \nWhat is the Role of the City in Modernism? The Crowd  \nThe Human River     and the Flâneur The City as Narrative Architects’Utopia  \nWhy Are Modernists So Often “Exiles”? Modernist Nomads  \nExile Into Language  \nWhat is the Role of Élites and Avant-gardes in Modernism? Is Avant-gardism “Pure” Modernism?  \nThe Cohesion of Avant-gardes Picasso’s Alliances  \nWhat Politics Did the Modernists Espouse?  \nReactionary Modernism? Modernists on the Ultra-Right The Political Errors of Modernism Examples of Progressive Modernists No One’s Perfect    \nHow Does Modernism Relate to Mass Culture?  \nAgainst Mass Culture Understanding Mass Culture Cultural Industries  \nThe Impact of the First World War Dulce et decorum est pro patria mori“And What For?”  \nWhat Would You Choose? Crimes Against Humanity  \nModernism Emigrates to America Is America the Natural Home of Modernism? The Great Crash and Recovery Programme Modernism: the Un-American Activity Entartete Kunst  \nSoviet Censorship An Unholy Alliance  \nThe Elite Defence of Modernism  \nKitsch, High Culture and Abstract Expressionism Hijacking Abstract Expressionism  \nDuchamp Descending a Staircase …  \nPop Art or Neo-Dadaism?  \nThe “End” of Modernism?  \nWhat is the Relation of Cinema to Modernism? Against the Modernist Grain  \nEuropean Art Cinema  \nAvant-garde Cinema: Surrealism Expressionism in Films  \nAvant-garde Soviet Films Reconsidering Hollywood The New Wave Breathless    \nNew Technologies = Postmodernism?  \nHas Modernism “Ended”? Postmodern MoMA Out of Babylon  \nBibliography Index  \nRealizing Modernism  \nThis book will try to answer 15 basic questions on modernism, and is specifically concerned with modernism in the arts.  \n1. What is modernism?  \n2. When does modernism begin?  \n3. What is the difference between modernism and “modernity”?  \n4. Is modernism just a reaction to modernity?  \n5. How do we recognize a “modernist” work?  \n6. 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