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  1. Characteristics of the Age of Anxiety and Late Modernism

  2. Transformations in the Postwar World
    1. The era of the superpowers, 1945–1970
      1. Postwar recovery and the new world order
          2. a) Divisions and alliances in western Europe and around the globe
          b) The Soviet Union
          c) The United States
      2. The cold war
          3. a) Division of East and West in Europe
          b) Spreads to other parts of world
          c) Military conflicts and international tensions
      3. Emergence of the third world
          4. a) The end of colonialism
          b) New states and new economic systems
      4. Mass culture

  3. The End of Modernism
    1. Characteristics of late modernism in the arts
    2. Philosophy and religion
      1. Existentialism: Sartre and Camus
      2. Neo-orthodoxy: Barth and Tillich
      3. Christian evolution: Teilhard
      4. Buber
      5. Roman Catholic Reforms: Vatican II
    3. Political and social movements
      1. Structuralism (versus existentialism): Chomsky and Levi-Strauss
      2. Feminism and Simone de Beauvoir
      3. 1960s political and social movements influenced by modern philosophies
    4. Science and technology: byproducts of WWII
      1. Radio and television technologies
      2. Nuclear power
      3. Satellites
      4. The "Space Race."
    5. Medicine
      1. The birth control pill and the sexual revolution
      2. Polio vaccines and new cancer treatments
      3. Discovering DNA structure
    6. The literature of late modernism: fiction, poetry, and drama
      1. Existentialist writings
          2. a) Sartre
          b) Camus
      2. Black literature
          3. a) Wright
          b) Baldwin
      3. The novel
          4. a) Mailer
          b) Lessing
          c) Solzhenitsyn
      4. Poetry
          5. a) Thomas
          b) Ginsberg
      5. Drama
          6. a) Theater of the Absurd
          b) Miller, Williams, and Osborne
    7. Late modernism and the arts
      1. Painting
          2. a) Pollock
          b) de Kooning
          c) Rothko
          d) Frankenthaler
          e) Johns
          f) Rauschenberg
          g) Riley
      2. Sculpture
      3. Architecture
          4. a) Saarinen
          b) Mies van der Rohe
    8. Happenings
    9. Late modern music
      1. Schoenberg
      2. Stravinsky
      3. Penderecki
      4. Cage
    10. Film
      1. Neorealism
      2. Japanese art films
      3. Nouvelle Vague
      4. Rise of the documentary
      5. Film festivals

  4. The Legacy of the Age of Anxiety and Late Modernism






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