Postmodernism in the Cinema

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Publisher : Berghahn Books
ISBN 13 : 178920383X
Total Pages : 276 pages
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Book Synopsis Postmodernism in the Cinema by : Cristina Degli-Esposti

Download or read book Postmodernism in the Cinema written by Cristina Degli-Esposti and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 1998-07-01 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although "Postmodernism" has been a widely used catch word and its concept extensively discussed in philosophy, political thought, and the arts, many scholars still feel uneasy about it Despite the fact that the concept can be traced back to Arnold Toynbee's 1939 edition of A Study of History, or even back into the nineteenth century, its amorphous nature continues to confound many scholars, not least because there are not one but several kinds of postmodernism, each one pointing to different states of questioning and to diverse ways of remembering, interpreting, and representing. This anthology makes a significant contribution to the current debate in that it offers sophisticated and multi-faceted discussions of a number of key issues in relation to cinema such as auteurism, national cinemas, metacinema, the parodic, history, and colonization.

Postmodern Filming of Literature

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Total Pages : 286 pages
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Book Synopsis Postmodern Filming of Literature by : Joyce L. Arriola

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The Emotional Life of Postmodern Film

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Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317355644
Total Pages : 242 pages
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Book Synopsis The Emotional Life of Postmodern Film by : Pansy Duncan

Download or read book The Emotional Life of Postmodern Film written by Pansy Duncan and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-11-19 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Emotion and Postmodernism: is it possible to imagine an odder couple, stranger bedfellows, less bad company? The Emotional Life of Postmodern Film brings this unlikely pair into sustained dialogue, arguing that the interdisciplinary body of scholarship currently emerging under the rubric of "affect theory" may be unexpectedly enriched by an encounter with the field that has become its critical other. Across a series of radical re-reappraisals of canonical postmodern texts, from Fredric Jameson's Postmodernism to David Cronenberg's Crash, Duncan shows that the same postmodern archive that has proven resistant to strongly subject-based and object-oriented emotions, like anger and sadness, proves all too congenial to a series of idiosyncratic, borderline emotions, from knowingness, fascination and bewilderment to boredom and euphoria. The analysis of these emotions, in turn, promises to shake up scholarly consensus on two key counts. On the one hand, it will restructure our sense of the place and role of emotion in a critical enterprise that has long cast it as the stodgy, subjective sister of a supposedly more critically interesting and politically productive affect. On the other, it will transform our perception of postmodernism as a now-historical aesthetic and theoretical moment, teaching us to acknowledge more explicitly and to name more clearly the emotional life that energizes it.

Postmodernism and Film

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Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 0231850832
Total Pages : 207 pages
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Book Synopsis Postmodernism and Film by : Catherine Constable

Download or read book Postmodernism and Film written by Catherine Constable and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2015-06-30 with total page 207 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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' 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.

After Postmodernism

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Publisher : Ariadne Press (CA)
ISBN 13 : 9781572410916
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (19 download)

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Book Synopsis After Postmodernism by : Willy Riemer

Download or read book After Postmodernism written by Willy Riemer and published by Ariadne Press (CA). This book was released on 2000 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Postmodern Hollywood

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Publisher : Praeger
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Book Synopsis Postmodern Hollywood by : M. Keith Booker

Download or read book Postmodern Hollywood written by M. Keith Booker and published by Praeger. This book was released on 2007-07-30 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discussions of the phenomenon of postmodernism have established certain characteristics that are typical of postmodernist culture. This book presents a brief summary of the characteristics that have typically been associated with postmodernism, especially as they pertain to film.

Adaptation Theory and Criticism

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Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1623562015
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (235 download)

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Book Synopsis Adaptation Theory and Criticism by : Gordon E. Slethaug

Download or read book Adaptation Theory and Criticism written by Gordon E. Slethaug and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2014-06-19 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Traditional critics of film adaptation generally assumed a) that the written text is better than the film adaptation because the plot is more intricate and the language richer when pictorial images do not intrude; b) that films are better when particularly faithful to the original; c) that authors do not make good script writers and should not sully their imagination by writing film scripts; d) and often that American films lack the complexity of authored texts because they are sourced out of Hollywood. The 'faithfulness' view has by and large disappeared, and intertextuality is now a generally received notion, but the field still lacks studies with a postmodern methodology and lens.Exploring Hollywood feature films as well as small studio productions, Adaptation Theory and Criticism explores the intertextuality of a dozen films through a series of case studies introduced through discussions of postmodern methodology and practice. Providing the reader with informative background on theories of film adaptation as well as carefully articulated postmodern methodology and issues, Gordon Slethaug includes several case studies of major Hollywood productions and small studio films, some of which have been discussed before (Age of Innocence, Gangs of New York, and Do the Right Thing) and some that have received lesser consideration (Six Degrees of Separation, Smoke, Smoke Signals, Broken Flowers, and various Snow White narratives including Enchanted, Mirror Mirror, and Snow White and the Huntsman). Useful for both film and literary studies students, Adaptation Theory and Criticism cogently combines the existing scholarship and uses previous theories to engage readers to think about the current state of American literature and film.

Postmodern Chick Flicks

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Publisher : Palgrave Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 9781403998194
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (981 download)

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Book Synopsis Postmodern Chick Flicks by : Roberta Garrett

Download or read book Postmodern Chick Flicks written by Roberta Garrett and published by Palgrave Macmillan. This book was released on 2007-05-15 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Women's films are more popular now than at any time following the classical era. Postmodern Chick Flicks considers the reasons for the renewed popularity of female-orientated genres and examines the new film cycles this has produced. Focusing on melodrama, romantic comedy, costume drama and female-led noirs, the book looks at the revival of these forms and the way in which they blend classical and contemporary themes and formal devices.

Post-classical Cinema

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ISBN 13 : 9781906660093
Total Pages : 0 pages
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Book Synopsis Post-classical Cinema by : Eleftheria Thanouli

Download or read book Post-classical Cinema written by Eleftheria Thanouli and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work presents a timely theoretical intervention in the analysis of contemporary film language. It has a truly international scope, featuring films and filmmakers from around the world.

About "Macbeth". A Postmodern Film

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ISBN 13 : 9783668923652
Total Pages : 24 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (236 download)

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Book Synopsis About "Macbeth". A Postmodern Film by : Samir Mandal

Download or read book About "Macbeth". A Postmodern Film written by Samir Mandal and published by . This book was released on 2019-03-20 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Seminar paper from the year 2017 in the subject Film Science, grade: B, University of Burdwan (Golapbag Campus), course: MA, language: English, abstract: Film studies have faced a great change in this postmodern era. It has moved from reality to hyper-reality, text to hypertext, radio to television and modernity to postmodernity. Electronics and digital media have overtaken the print media and eclipsed it. Fredric Jameson in his book Postmodernism says, "the priority of film over literature in jolting us out of print culture and/ or logocentrism, it remained an essentially modernist formulation, locked in a set of cultural values and categories which are in full Postmodernism demonstrably antiquated and "historical." That film has today become postmodernist...". Postmodernism blurs the boundary between high and low. Linda Hutcheon opines that "An adaptation is not vampiric: it does not draw the life-blood from its source and leave it dying or dead, nor is it paler than the adapted work. It may, on the contrary, keep that prior work alive, giving it an afterlife it would never have had otherwise". It transposes one genre to another. Both the film and the literature are equally valuable.

A World in Chaos

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Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1461636442
Total Pages : 331 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (616 download)

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Book Synopsis A World in Chaos by : Carl Boggs

Download or read book A World in Chaos written by Carl Boggs and published by Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. This book was released on 2003-08-25 with total page 331 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Through an analysis of films such as American Beauty, Blade Runner, Natural Born Killers, and Thelma and Louise, Carl Boggs and Thomas Pollard explore the historical and theoretical shift from the long era of modernity to an emergent postmodernity and examine its intersection with film culture.

America in Literature and Film

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Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317182359
Total Pages : 177 pages
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Book Synopsis America in Literature and Film by : Ahmed Elbeshlawy

Download or read book America in Literature and Film written by Ahmed Elbeshlawy and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-04-15 with total page 177 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Utilizing Lacan's psychoanalytic theory and Zizek's philosophical adaption of it, this book brings into dialogue a series of modernist and postmodernist literary works, films, and critical theory that are concerned with defining America. Ahmed Elbeshlawy demonstrates that how America is perceived in certain texts reveals not only the idealization or condemnation of it, but an imago, or constructed image of the perceiver as well. In turn, texts which particularly focus on demonstrating how other texts about America communicate an untrustworthy message themselves communicate an unreliable message, inventing and reinventing a series of imagos of America. These imagos refer to both idealized and deformed images of America constructed by the perceivers of America. The first part of this book is concerned with modernist perceptions of America, and includes discussion of Adorno, Benjamin, Kafka, D. H. Lawrence, as well as Emerson and Seymour Martin Lipset. The second part is dedicated to postmodernist representations of America, focusing on texts by Edward Said, Ihab Hassan, Susan Sontag, David Shambaugh and Charles W. Brooks, and films including Lars von Trier's Dogville and D.W. Griffith's Birth of a Nation.

Fragments of Tragedy in Postmodern Film

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Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1443869120
Total Pages : 130 pages
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Book Synopsis Fragments of Tragedy in Postmodern Film by : Sezen Kayhan

Download or read book Fragments of Tragedy in Postmodern Film written by Sezen Kayhan and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2014-10-16 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Despite the theories about the “death of tragedy”, this book explores fragments and reflections of tragedy in postmodern film. Tragedy has changed and evolved with human society, and its continuous chain from Ancient Greece to modern times has been broken by postmodernism. However, certain aspects of tragedy have continued to be used by literature and film: in particular, films with themes of chaos, violence, popular culture, paranoia, virtual reality and alienation often use aspects of tragedy. The focus of this study is on these facets adopted by postmodern film.

A Poetics of Postmodernism

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Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134986270
Total Pages : 288 pages
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Book Synopsis A Poetics of Postmodernism by : Linda Hutcheon

Download or read book A Poetics of Postmodernism written by Linda Hutcheon and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2003-09-02 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1988. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Postmodern Metanarratives

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Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137439734
Total Pages : 218 pages
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Book Synopsis Postmodern Metanarratives by : Décio Torres Cruz

Download or read book Postmodern Metanarratives written by Décio Torres Cruz and published by Springer. This book was released on 2014-07-29 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Postmodern Metanarratives investigates the relationship between cinema and literature by analyzing the film Blade Runner as a postmodern work that constitutes a landmark of cyberpunk narrative and establishes a link between tradition and the (post)modern.

Postmodern Texts and Emotional Audiences

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Publisher : Purdue University Press
ISBN 13 : 9781557534798
Total Pages : 240 pages
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Book Synopsis Postmodern Texts and Emotional Audiences by : Kimberly Chabot Davis

Download or read book Postmodern Texts and Emotional Audiences written by Kimberly Chabot Davis and published by Purdue University Press. This book was released on 2007 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Analyzes contemporary texts that bond together two seemingly antithetical sensibilities: the sentimental and the postmodern. This book presents case studies of audience responses to "The Piano", "Kiss of the Spider Woman", and "Northern Exposure". It argues that sentimental postmodernism deepened leftist political engagement.

International Postmodernism

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Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9789027234452
Total Pages : 622 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (344 download)

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Book Synopsis International Postmodernism by : Johannes Willem Bertens

Download or read book International Postmodernism written by Johannes Willem Bertens and published by John Benjamins Publishing. This book was released on 1997 with total page 622 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Containing more than fifty essays by major literary scholars, International Postmodernism divides into four main sections. The volume starts off with a section of eight introductory studies dealing with the subject from different points of view followed by a section that deals with postmodernism in other arts than literature, while a third section discusses renovations of narrative genres and other strategies and devices in postmodernist writing. The final and fourth section deals with the reception and processing of postmodernism in different parts of the world. Three important aspects add to the special character of International Postmodernism: The consistent distinction between postmodernity and postmodernism; equal attention to the making and diffusion of postmodernism and the workings of literature in general; and the focus on the text and the reader (i.e., the reader's knowledge, experience, interests, and competence) as crucial factors in text interpretation. This comprehensive study does not expressly focus on American postmodernism, although American interpretations of postmodernism are a major point of reference. The recognition that varying literary and cultural conditions in this world are bound to produce endless varieties of postmodernism made the editors, Hans Bertens and Douwe Fokkema, opt for the title International Postmodernism.