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Signatures of the Visible

By Jameson , Fredric

Book information

Publisher
Taylor and Francis;Routledge
Year
2007
ISBN
0-415-77161-7, 978-0-415-77161-0
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
465 kB (476024 bytes)
Series
Routledge Classics) (Volume 118
Edition
1
Pages
360\0
Time added
2017-08-15 11:00:00

Description

In such celebrated works as Postmodernism: The Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism, Fredric Jameson has established himself as one of America’s most observant cultural commentators. In Signatures of the Visible, Jameson turns his attention to cinema - the artform that has replaced the novel as the defining cultural form of our time. Historicizing a form that has flourished in a post-modern and anti-historical culture, he explores the allegorical and ideological dimensions of such films as The Shining, Dog Day Afternoon and the works of Alfred Hitchcock, among many others. Fifteen years on from its original publication, this remains a piercing and original analysis of film from a writer and thinker whose influence continues to be felt long after that of the fashionable post-modernists he has always critiqued.

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