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Richard Linklater is a popular American filmmaker who is widely
celebrated for the breadth of his oeuvre. Over the past three
decades, Linklater has directed more than twenty features, ranging
from non-linear independent films to Hollywood genre entertainment.
Despite the popularity of Linklater's rich and varied body of
work--and perhaps also because of this generic diversity--he
remains under-represented in critical and scholarly fora. ReFocus:
The Films of Richard Linklater addresses this oversight, bringing
together twelve original essays attending to Linklater as a
filmmaker whose work engages with contemporary debates in American
politics, gender, youth, and activism as well as significant
concepts in film studies, including time and duration, rhythm, and
movement. Together these essays form a dialogue on Linklater's
ongoing role in contemporary American popular culture, and the
impact his work has on discussions within (and beyond) film
studies.
Metamodernism: Historicity, Affect, Depth brings together many of
the most influential voices in the scholarly and critical debate
about post-postmodernism and twenty-first century aesthetics, arts
and culture. By relating cutting-edge analyses of contemporary
literature, the visual arts and film and television to recent
social, technological and economic developments, the volume
provides both a map and an itinerary of today's metamodern cultural
landscape. As its organising principle, the book takes Fredric
Jameson's canonical arguments about the waning of historicity,
affect and depth in the postmodern culture of western capitalist
societies in the twentieth century, and re-evaluates and
reconceptualises these notions in a twenty-first century context.
In doing so, it shows that the contemporary moment should be
regarded as a transitional period from the postmodern and into the
metamodern cultural moment.
Metamodernism: Historicity, Affect, Depth brings together many of
the most influential voices in the scholarly and critical debate
about post-postmodernism and twenty-first century aesthetics, arts
and culture. By relating cutting-edge analyses of contemporary
literature, the visual arts and film and television to recent
social, technological and economic developments, the volume
provides both a map and an itinerary of today's metamodern cultural
landscape. As its organising principle, the book takes Fredric
Jameson's canonical arguments about the waning of historicity,
affect and depth in the postmodern culture of western capitalist
societies in the twentieth century, and re-evaluates and
reconceptualises these notions in a twenty-first century context.
In doing so, it shows that the contemporary moment should be
regarded as a transitional period from the postmodern and into the
metamodern cultural moment.
Exploring fiction, film and art from across the USA, South America,
Asia, Europe and Australia, New Suburban Stories brings together
new research from leading international scholars to examine
cultural representations of the suburbs, home to a rapidly
increasing proportion of the world's population. Focussing in
particular on works that challenge conventional attitudes to
suburbia, the book considers how suburban communities have taken
control of their own representation to tell their own stories in
contemporary novels, poetry, autobiography, cinema, social media
and public art.
Exploring fiction, film and art from across the USA, South America,
Asia, Europe and Australia, 'New Suburban Stories' brings together
new research from leading international scholars to examine
cultural representations of the suburbs, home to a rapidly
increasing proportion of the world's population. Focusing in
particular on works that challenge conventional attitudes to
suburbia, the book considers how suburban communities have taken
control of their own representation to tell their own stories in
contemporary novels, poetry, autobiography, cinema, social media
and public art.
'The spatial sensibility of the suburb in recent US film and TV is
brilliantly explored and theorized in this book. Without reducing
their complexity, Vermeulen elegantly shows what suburbs do on
screen, as representations and as ways for fictional characters and
for viewers to experience contemporary place and space.' JONATHAN
BIGNELL, Professor of Television and Film, University of Reading
SUBURBIA. Say the word and a stream of images passes before your
eyes: white picket fence, neatly mown lawns, winding roads nicely
lined with trees, pastel-tinted bungalows, bored housewives,
conspicuous consumption. We all know what the suburbs are about. Or
do we? This book looks again at the filmic and televised spaces we
think we know so well. How are these spaces built up? What is it
that makes us recognise them as suburbs? How do they function? By
exploring in detail the hometowns of Desperate Housewives, The
Simpsons, King of the Hill, Happiness, Pleasantville, Brick and The
Chumscrubber, Scenes from the Suburbs examines what it means to be
suburban today. An essential read for academics concerned with the
ways in which our understandings of space and place change, this
book is particularly relevant for students and researchers in
Suburban Studies, Film & Television Studies and Urban
Geography.
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