Introduction
Of titanics, wars, downturns, and downtons : popular modernism and its legacies / Scott Ortolano
New visions of popular modernism
Gentry modernism : cultural connoisseurship and midcentury masculinity, 1951-1957 / Marsha Bryant
Modernism, operetta and ruritania : Ivor Novello's glamorous night / Nicholas Daly
Fine art on the airwaves : radio drama and modern(ist) mass culture / Adam Nemmers
"I'm gonna be somebody," 1930 : gangsters and modernist celebrity / Jonathan Goldman
Charlie Chaplin, Walter Benjamin, and the redemption of the city / Barry Faulk
Legacies of popular modernism
"Catch a wave" : surf noir and modernist nostalgia / Kirk Curnutt
Alien pleasures : modernism/hybridity/science fiction / Paul March-Russell
Josephine Baker's contemporary afterlives : black female identity, modernist performance, and popular legacies of the jazz age / Asimina Ino Nikolopoulou
A hitchhiker's guide to modernism : the futurist fordisms of Aldous Huxley, Brian O'Nolan, and Douglas Adams / Andrew McFeaters
Resonances of popular modernism in the twenty-first century
Smokescreens to smokestacks : true detective and the American sublime / Caroline Blinder
Of modernist second acts and African American lives : F. Scott Fitzgerald, the wire, and the struggle against lockdown / Walter Bosse
Don draper's identity crisis and mad men's modernist masculinity / Camelia Raghinaru
A century of reading time : Don Draper's identity crisis / Aimee Armande Wilson
Hemingway's console : memory and ethics in the modernist video game / Dustin Anderson
Afterword faye hammill
Notes on contributors
Index.