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Postmodernism and Film: Rethinking Hollywood´s Aesthestics
Catherine Constable
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Paperback. Series: Short Cuts. Num Pages: 144 pages, 12 b&w. BIC Classification: APFA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 152 x 199 x 13. Weight in Grams: 250.
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-Francois 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 ... Read more
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-Francois 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 ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Columbia University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Series
Short Cuts
Condition
New
Weight
212g
Number of Pages
144
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780231174558
SKU
V9780231174558
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About Catherine Constable
Catherine Constable is associate professor of film and television studies at the University of Warwick. She is the author of Adapting Philosophy: Jean Baudrillard and the Matrix Trilogy and Thinking in Images: Film Theory, Feminist Philosophy, and Marlene Dietrich.
Reviews for Postmodernism and Film: Rethinking Hollywood´s Aesthestics
In this wonderfully succint book, one of the leading voices in feminist philosophical postmodernism addresses all of the salient issues in this arena. This is a thought-provoking volume for all readers interested in a critical framework with which to access the rich legacy of Hollywood film practices and images.
Felicity Colman, Manchester Metropolitan University
Felicity Colman, Manchester Metropolitan University