Postmodernism and Film by Catherine Constable

Postmodernism and Film by Catherine Constable

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.

In this wonderfully succint book, one of the leading voices in feminist philosophical postmodernism addresses all of the salient issues in this arenaThis is a thought-provoking volume for all readers interested in a critical framework with which to access the rich legacy of Hollywood film practices and images. -- Felicity Colman, Manchester Metropolitan University

Catherine Constable is associate professor of film and television studies at the University of Warwick. She is the author of Adapting Philosophy: Jean Baudrillard and the Matrix Trilogy and Thinking in Images: Film Theory, Feminist Philosophy, and Marlene Dietrich.

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ISBN 13	9780231174558
ISBN 10	0231174551
Title	Postmodernism and Film
Author	Catherine Constable
Series	Short Cuts
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Columbia University Press
Year published	2015-06-30
Number of pages	144
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