{"product_id":"the-differentiation-of-modernism-9781571135728","title":"The Differentiation of Modernism","description":"\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Differentiation of Modernism\u003c\/i\u003e analyzes the phenomenon of intermediality in German radio plays, film music, and electronic music of the late modernist period (1945-1980).\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAfter 1945, the purist \"medium specificity\" of high modernism increasingly yielded to the mixed forms of intermediality. Theodor Adorno dubbed this development a \"Verfransung,\" or \"fraying of boundaries,\" between the arts. \u003ci\u003eTheDifferentiation of Modernism\u003c\/i\u003e analyzes this phenomenon in German electronic media arts of the late modernist period (1945-80): in radio plays, film music, and electronic music. The first part of the book begins with a chapter on Adorno's theory of radio as an instrument of democratization, going on to analyze the relationship of the \u003ci\u003eHörspiel\u003c\/i\u003e or radio play to electronic music. In the second part, on film music, a chapter on Adorno and Eisler's \u003ci\u003eComposing for the Film\u003c\/i\u003e sets the parameters for chapters on the film \u003ci\u003eDas Mädchen Rosemarie\u003c\/i\u003e (1957) and on the music films of Jean-Marie Straub and Danièle Huillet. The third part examines the music of Karlheinz Stockhausen and its relationship to radio, abstract painting, recording technology, and theatrical happenings. The book's central notion of the \"differentiation of culture\" suggests that late modernism, unlike high modernism, accepted the contingency of modern mass-media driven society and sought to find new forms for it.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLarson Powell is Curator's Professor of Film Studies at University of Missouri, Kansas City. He is the author of \u003ci\u003eThe Technological Unconscious in German Modernist Literature\u003c\/i\u003e (Camden House, 2008).","brand":"Larson Powell","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48280822776059,"sku":"9781571135728","price":130.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0779\/3917\/9771\/files\/9781571135728.jpg?v=1772484899","url":"https:\/\/indiepubs.com\/products\/the-differentiation-of-modernism-9781571135728","provider":"IndiePubs","version":"1.0","type":"link"}