" -The Year's Work in English StudiesHuyssen argues that postmodernism cannot be regarded as a radical break with the past, as it is deeply indebted to that other trend within the culture of modernity-the historical avant-garde.

Acknowledgments
Introduction

Part One: The Vanishing Other: Mass Culture

1. The HIdden Dialectic: Avantgarde-Technology-Mass Culture
2. Adorno in Reverse: From Hollywood to Richard Wagner
3. Mass Culture as Woman: Modernism's Other

Part Two: Texts and Contexts

4. The Vamp and the Machine: Fritz Lang's Metropolis
5. Producing Revolution: Heiner Muller's Mauser as Learning Play
6. The Politics of Indentification: "Holocaust" and West German Drama
7. Memory, Myth, and the Dream of Reason: Peter Weiss's Die Asthetik des Widerstands

Part Three: Toward the Postmodern

8. The Cultural Politics of Pop
9. The Search for Tradition: Avantgarde and Postmodernism in the 1970s
10. Mapping the Postmodern

Notes