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Author:

Constable, Catherine, author.

Title:

Postmodernism and film : rethinking Hollywood's aesthetics / Catherine Constable.

Publisher:

Wallflower Press,

Copyright Date:

2015

Description:

vii, 135 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm

Subject:

Motion pictures--United States--Aesthetics.
Postmodernism--United States.
Motion pictures--United States--History--20th century.
Motion pictures--United States--History--21st century.
Hollywood (Los Angeles, Calif.)

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 123-128) and index.

Summary:

"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-Fran©ʹois 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' theories, notably Linda Hutcheon, charting the ways in which the latter provide the means to conceptualise nuanced and positive variants of postmodern aesthetics and deploying them in the analysis of Hollywood films, including Bombshell, Sherlock Junior and Kill Bill."-- From back cover.

Series:

Short cuts: introductions to film studies ; 60

ISBN:

0231174551
9780231174558

OCLC:

(OCoLC)900030944

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)