Postmodernism and Film

Postmodernism and Film
Author: Catherine Constable
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Total Pages: 207
Release: 2015-06-30
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 0231850832

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This volume focuses on postmodern film aesthetics and contemporary challenges to the aesthetic paradigms dominating analyses of Hollywood cinema. It explores conceptions of the classical, modernist, post-classical/new Hollywood, and their construction as linear history of style in which postmodernism forms a debatable final act. This history is challenged by using Jean-François Lyotard's non-linear conception of postmodernism in order to view postmodern aesthetics as a paradigm that can occur across the history of Hollywood. This study also explores 'nihilistic' theorists of the postmodern, Jean Baudrillard and Frederic Jameson, and 'affirmative' theorists, notably Linda Hutcheon, charting the ways in which the latter provide the means to conceptualize nuanced and positive variants of postmodern aesthetics and deploying them in the analysis of Hollywood films, including Bombshell, Sherlock Junior, and Kill Bill.


Postmodernism and Film
Language: en
Pages: 207
Authors: Catherine Constable
Categories: Performing Arts
Type: BOOK - Published: 2015-06-30 - Publisher: Columbia University Press

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This volume focuses on postmodern film aesthetics and contemporary challenges to the aesthetic paradigms dominating analyses of Hollywood cinema. It explores co
Postmodernism in the Cinema
Language: en
Pages: 276
Authors: Cristina Degli-Esposti
Categories: Performing Arts
Type: BOOK - Published: 1998-07-01 - Publisher: Berghahn Books

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Although "Postmodernism" has been a widely used catch word and its concept extensively discussed in philosophy, political thought, and the arts, many scholars s
The Emotional Life of Postmodern Film
Language: en
Pages: 255
Authors: Pansy Duncan
Categories: Performing Arts
Type: BOOK - Published: 2015-11-19 - Publisher: Routledge

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Emotion and Postmodernism: is it possible to imagine an odder couple, stranger bedfellows, less bad company? The Emotional Life of Postmodern Film brings this u
Postmodernism in the Cinema
Language: en
Pages: 276
Authors: Cristina Degli-Esposti
Categories: Motion pictures
Type: BOOK - Published: 1998 - Publisher: Berghahn Books

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A collection of 13 essays from a fall 1994 conference in Kent, Ohio. They cover the ideological, the mnemonic, the parodic, and the media; issues of cross-cultu
A World in Chaos
Language: en
Pages: 331
Authors: Carl Boggs
Categories: Political Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2003-08-25 - Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

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A World in Chaos: Social Crisis and the Rise of Postmodern Cinema traces the evolution of postmodern cinema through its multiple and overlapping expressions. Th