{"product_id":"cinema-of-simulation-randy-laist-9781501320033","title":"Cinema of Simulation: Hyperreal Hollywood in the Long 1990s","description":"Hyperreality is an Alice-in-Wonderland dimension where copies have no originals, simulation is more real than reality, and living dreams undermine the barriers between imagination and objective experience. The most prominent philosopher of the hyperreal, Jean Baudrillard, formulated his concept of hyperreality throughout the 1980s, but it was not until the 1990s that the end of the Cold War, along with the proliferation of new reality-bending technologies, made hyperreality seem to come true. In the \"lost decade+? between the fall of the Berlin Wall and 9\/11, the nature of reality itself became a source of uncertainty, a psychic condition that has been recognizably recorded by that seismograph of American consciousness, Hollywood cinema. \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e The auteur cinema of the 1970s aimed for gritty realism, and the most prominent feature of Reagan-era cinema was its fantastic unrealism. Clinton-era cinema, however, is characterized by a prevailing mood of hyperrealism, communicated in various ways by such benchmark films as \u003ci\u003eJFK, Pulp Fiction\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eThe Matrix\u003c\/i\u003e. The hyperreal cinema of the 1990s conceives of the movie screen as neither a window on a preexisting social reality (realism), nor as a wormhole into a fantastic dream-dimension (escapism), but as an arena in which images and reality exchange masks, blend into one another, and challenge the philosophical premises which differentiate them from one another. \u003ci\u003eCinema of Simulation: Hyperreal Hollywood in the Long 1990s \u003c\/i\u003eprovides a guided tour through the anxieties and fantasies, reciprocally social and cinematic, which characterize the surreal territory of the hyperreal.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Randy Laist\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1501320033\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781501320033\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Bloomsbury Publishing PLC\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/22\/2016\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 272\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.79lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.56d","brand":"Randy Laist","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43935195595007,"sku":"9781501320033","price":51.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/products\/img_a777972c-2e8e-42ec-9705-1edae060a667.jpg?v=1681418411","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/cinema-of-simulation-randy-laist-9781501320033","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}