Postmodernism and Film: Rethinking Hollywood's Aesthetics (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780231174558)

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-Fran輟is 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.

Author: Catherine Constable
ISBN-10: 0231174551
ISBN-13: 9780231174558
Publisher: Wallflower Press
Language: English
Published: 06/30/2015
Pages: 144
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.50lbs
Size: 7.70h x 5.90w x 0.40d