Feeling Modern
Subtitle: The Eccentricities of Public Life
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Published: March 13, 2008
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 256
ISBN-13: 9780252075469
Subjects: Film & Video - History & Criticism; Modern - 20th Century; Popular Culture - General; Social Science / Popular Culture; Social Science; Pop Arts / Pop Culture; Sociology
Description: This study combines theories of public sphere, cinema, visual culture and affect. While modernist feeling is often described either as a reservoir of romantic inwardness or as an inhuman hostility to sentiment, Nieland argues that modernists championed feelings as primarily public, rather than as private property of the self.