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Tables of Contents for A Primer to Postmodernity
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
To the Reader
vii
1 Is This a Postmodern World?
1
20
Sidebar 1: Paradigm History
13
8
2 How Do We Create a Sense of Realism? Or, Do We Just Discover It?
21
5
3 Classic Realist Formulas in Action: Film
26
21
Sidebar 2: The Classic or Naive Realist Formula
36
3
Sidebar 3: Breaking Free of the Classic Realist Formula
39
8
4 Go To Citizen Kane to Find Twentieth-century Modernism...On the Edge of Postmodernity
47
14
5 Moving Across the Profound Surface of a Postmodern Life
61
29
Sidebar 4: Is Seinfeld Postmodern?
84
6
6 Yes, There Is a Postmodern Political Struggle
90
13
7 Postmodernity and the Market
103
12
8 Postmodernity's War with Science?
115
26
Sidebar 5: Do Our Categories Fit?
135
6
9 Meditating on Postmodern Ethics and Religion
141
18
10 Facing the Monsters: History in the Hands of Postmodernists
159
13
11 Enacting the Postmodern: The Primer's Glossary of Cultural Studies
172
33
Index
205