- Description
- 1 online resource (vii, 135 pages) : illustrations.
- 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-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' 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 Statement
- Short cuts: introductions to film studies ; 60
- Uniform Title
- Postmodernism and film (Online)
- Short cuts (London, England) ; 60.
- Alternative Title
- Postmodernism and film (Online)
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 123-128) and index.
- Access (note)
- Access restricted to authorized users.
- LCCN
- 2015298115
- OCLC
- ssj0001573089
- Author
Constable, Catherine.
- Title
Postmodernism and film [electronic resource] : rethinking Hollywood's aesthetics / Catherine Constable.
- Imprint
London ; New York : Wallflower Press, [2015]
- Series
Short cuts: introductions to film studies ; 60
Short cuts (London, England) ; 60.
- Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 123-128) and index.
- Access
Access restricted to authorized users.
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