Postmodernism and film: rethinking Hollywood's aesthestics

✍ Scribed by Constable, Catherine

• Publisher: Columbia University Press;Wallflower Press
• Year: 2015
• Tongue: English
• Series: Short cuts (London England) 60
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

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.

✦ Table of Contents

1. Classical/Post-classical/Postmodern --
   2. Nihilistic Postmodernisms --
   3. Affirmative Postmodernisms.

✦ Subjects

Motion pictures;Motion pictures--Aesthetics;Motion pictures--United States--Aesthetics;Motion pictures--United States--History--20th century;Motion pictures--United States--History--21st century;PERFORMING ARTS--Reference;Postmodernism;Postmodernism--United States;History;Electronic books;Motion pictures -- United States -- Aesthetics;Postmodernism -- United States;Motion pictures -- United States -- History -- 20th century;Motion pictures -- United States -- History -- 21st century;Hollywood (L