Postmodernism And Film

Author : Catherine Constable
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 207 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2015-06-30
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780231850834

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Postmodernism and Film by Catherine Constable Pdf

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.

Author : Cristina Degli-Esposti
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 1998-07-01
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781789203837

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Postmodernism in the Cinema by Cristina Degli-Esposti Pdf

Although "Postmodernism" has been a widely used catch word and its concept extensively discussed in philosophy, political thought, and the arts, many scholars still feel uneasy about it Despite the fact that the concept can be traced back to Arnold Toynbee's 1939 edition of A Study of History, or even back into the nineteenth century, its amorphous nature continues to confound many scholars, not least because there are not one but several kinds of postmodernism, each one pointing to different states of questioning and to diverse ways of remembering, interpreting, and representing. This anthology makes a significant contribution to the current debate in that it offers sophisticated and multi-faceted discussions of a number of key issues in relation to cinema such as auteurism, national cinemas, metacinema, the parodic, history, and colonization.

Author : Pansy Duncan
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2015-11-19
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317355649

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The Emotional Life of Postmodern Film by Pansy Duncan Pdf

Emotion and Postmodernism: is it possible to imagine an odder couple, stranger bedfellows, less bad company? The Emotional Life of Postmodern Film brings this unlikely pair into sustained dialogue, arguing that the interdisciplinary body of scholarship currently emerging under the rubric of "affect theory" may be unexpectedly enriched by an encounter with the field that has become its critical other. Across a series of radical re-reappraisals of canonical postmodern texts, from Fredric Jameson's Postmodernism to David Cronenberg's Crash, Duncan shows that the same postmodern archive that has proven resistant to strongly subject-based and object-oriented emotions, like anger and sadness, proves all too congenial to a series of idiosyncratic, borderline emotions, from knowingness, fascination and bewilderment to boredom and euphoria. The analysis of these emotions, in turn, promises to shake up scholarly consensus on two key counts. On the one hand, it will restructure our sense of the place and role of emotion in a critical enterprise that has long cast it as the stodgy, subjective sister of a supposedly more critically interesting and politically productive affect. On the other, it will transform our perception of postmodernism as a now-historical aesthetic and theoretical moment, teaching us to acknowledge more explicitly and to name more clearly the emotional life that energizes it.

Author : Cristina Degli-Esposti
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Motion pictures
ISBN : 1571811060

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Postmodernism in the Cinema by Cristina Degli-Esposti Pdf

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-cultural identity and national cinemas; postmodernism and tourism, (post)history, and colonization; and auteurial presences. Specific topics include Aladdin as a postmodern text, de- authorizing the auteur, imaginary geographies in contemporary French cinema, and the dual paternity of Querelle. No subject index. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Author : Wimal Dissanayake
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 1993-05-28
Category : Drama
ISBN : 0521414652

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Melodrama and Asian Cinema by Wimal Dissanayake Pdf

This unique study examines the importance of melodrama in the film traditions of Japan, India, China, Indonesia, the Philippines, and Australia.

Author : Sezen Kayhan
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 130 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2014-10-16
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781443869126

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Fragments of Tragedy in Postmodern Film by Sezen Kayhan Pdf

Despite the theories about the “death of tragedy”, this book explores fragments and reflections of tragedy in postmodern film. Tragedy has changed and evolved with human society, and its continuous chain from Ancient Greece to modern times has been broken by postmodernism. However, certain aspects of tragedy have continued to be used by literature and film: in particular, films with themes of chaos, violence, popular culture, paranoia, virtual reality and alienation often use aspects of tragedy. The focus of this study is on these facets adopted by postmodern film.

Author : Carl Boggs,Thomas Pollard
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Page : 331 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2003-08-25
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781461636441

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A World in Chaos by Carl Boggs,Thomas Pollard Pdf

A World in Chaos: Social Crisis and the Rise of Postmodern Cinema traces the evolution of postmodern cinema through its multiple and overlapping expressions. Through an analysis of films such as American Beauty, Blade Runner, Natural Born Killers, and Thelma and Loiuse, Carl Boggs and Thomas Pollard explore the historical and theoretical shift from the long era of modernity to an emergent postmodernity and examine its intersection with film culture. Unlike most works on media studies, Boggs and Pollard bring together elements of sociology, history, economics, literature, communications, and pop culture to fully explore the complex developmental interaction between film and society. The resulting work illuminates the different, often conflicted and contradictory, currents at work in the film industry that long ago departed from the ritualized practices of the classical studio system. Engagingly and clearly written, A World in Chaos is perfect for film and pop culture enthusiasts as well as everyone interested in the role of film in American society.

Author : Tim Woods
Publisher : Manchester University Press
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 1999-08-20
Category : Art
ISBN : 0719052114

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Beginning Postmodernism by Tim Woods Pdf

"Postmodernism" has become the buzzword of contemporary society. Yet it remains baffling in its variety of definitions, contexts and associations. Beginning Postmodernism aims to offer clear, accessible and step-by-step introductions to postmodernism across a wide range of subjects. It encourages readers to explore how the debates about postmodernism have emerged from basic philosophical and cultural ideas. With its emphasis firmly on "postmodernism in practice," the book contains exercises and questions designed to help readers understand and reflect upon a variety of positions in the following areas of contemporary culture: philosophy and cultural theory; architecture and concepts of space; visual art; sculpture and the design arts; popular culture and music; film, video and television culture; and the social sciences.

Author : Peter Brooker,Will Brooker
Publisher : Hodder Education
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 0340676914

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Postmodern After-images by Peter Brooker,Will Brooker Pdf

Postmodernism is in transition. Its influence on cultural and media studies has been immense, and still continues to dominate debates on late twentieth century culture. This Reader explores its rich and diverse nature, focusing on cinema, television and video. It combines now classic statements from Jameson, Baudrillard and Creed with new perspectives on youth, gender and ethnicity which extend the debates "beyond postmodernism."

Author : Neelam Sidhar Wright
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2015-06-24
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780748696352

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Bollywood and Postmodernism by Neelam Sidhar Wright Pdf

Applying postmodern concepts and locating postmodern motifs in key commercial Hindi films, this innovative study reveals how Indian cinema has changed in the 21st century.

Author : M. Keith Booker
Publisher : Praeger
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2007-07-30
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : UOM:39015064966107

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Postmodern Hollywood by M. Keith Booker Pdf

Discussions of the phenomenon of postmodernism have established certain characteristics that are typical of postmodernist culture. This book presents a brief summary of the characteristics that have typically been associated with postmodernism, especially as they pertain to film.

Author : Susanne Zhanial
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 319 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2019-12-16
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9789004416093

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Postmodern Pirates by Susanne Zhanial Pdf

Postmodern Pirates offers a comprehensive analysis of Disney’s Pirates of the Caribbean series and the pirate motif in British literature and Hollywood movies through the lens of postmodern film theories.

Author : Kimberly Chabot Davis
Publisher : Purdue University Press
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1557534799

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Postmodern Texts and Emotional Audiences by Kimberly Chabot Davis Pdf

Analyzes contemporary texts that bond together two seemingly antithetical sensibilities: the sentimental and the postmodern. This book presents case studies of audience responses to "The Piano", "Kiss of the Spider Woman", and "Northern Exposure". It argues that sentimental postmodernism deepened leftist political engagement.

Author : Marilyn Fabe
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2014-10-14
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780520279971

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Closely Watched Films by Marilyn Fabe Pdf

"Through detailed examinations of passages from classic films, Marilyn Fabe supplies the analytic tools and background in film history and theory to enable us to see more in every film we watch"--Page [4] of cover.

Author : Charles Jencks
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 76 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Architecture
ISBN : UOM:39015018905631

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What is Post-modernism? by Charles Jencks Pdf