Postmodernism and Film - Rethinking Hollywood's Aesthestics (Paperback)

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 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.

General

Imprint:	Wallflower Press
Country of origin:	United States
Series:	Short Cuts
Release date:	June 2015
Authors:	Catherine Constable
Dimensions:	200 x 150 x 13mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback - Trade
Pages:	144
ISBN-13:	978-0-231-17455-8
Categories:	Books > Arts & Architecture > Performing arts > Films, cinema > Film theory & criticism Promotions
LSN:	0-231-17455-1
Barcode:	9780231174558

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