Description
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 succinct book, one of the leading voices in feminist philosophical postmodernism addresses all of the salient issues in this arena. This 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 This series is tailor-made for a modular approach to film studies...an indispensable tool for both lecturers and students. -- Professor Paul Willemen, University of Ulster
About the Author
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.
Reviews
In this wonderfully succint book, one of the leading voices in feminist philosophical postmodernism addresses all of the salient issues in this arena. This 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
Book Information
ISBN 9780231174558
Author Catherine Constable
Format Paperback
Page Count 144
Imprint Wallflower Press
Publisher Columbia University Press
In this wonderfully succinct book, one of the leading voices in feminist philosophical postmodernism addresses all of the salient issues in this arena. This 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 This series is tailor-made for a modular approach to film studies...an indispensable tool for both lecturers and students. -- Professor Paul Willemen, University of Ulster
About the Author
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.
Reviews
In this wonderfully succint book, one of the leading voices in feminist philosophical postmodernism addresses all of the salient issues in this arena. This 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
Book Information
ISBN 9780231174558
Author Catherine Constable
Format Paperback
Page Count 144
Imprint Wallflower Press
Publisher Columbia University Press
