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Postmodernism and film: rethinking Hollywood's aesthestics

By Catherine , Constable

Book information

Publisher
Columbia University Press;Wallflower Press
Year
2015
ISBN
9780231850834, 9780231174558, 0231850832
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
3 MB (3130956 bytes)
Series
Short cuts (London England) 60
Pages
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Time added
2020-07-26 19:24:52
Motion pictures;Motion pictures--Aesthetics;Motion

Description

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, postclassical/new Hollywood, and their construction as linear history of style in which postmodernism forms a debatable final act. This history is challenged by using Lyotard's non-linear conception of postmodernism in order to view postmodern aesthetics as a paradigm that can occur across the history of Hollywood.;1. Classical/Post-classical/Postmodern -- 2. Nihilistic Postmodernisms -- 3. Affirmative Postmodernisms. 1. Classical/Post-classical/Postmodern -- 2. Nihilistic Postmodernisms -- 3. Affirmative Postmodernisms.

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