| Description |
x, 294 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Contents |
Film. Sect. I. nostalgia and the unknown. 1. 'The nostalgia mode' and 'Nostalgia for the present' / Fredric Jameson. 2. 'Postmodern film?' / Linda Hutcheon. 3. 'From here to modernity' / Barbara Creed. Sect. II. styles of pluralism. 4. 'Time and space in the postmodern cinema' / David Harvey. 5. '"Who programs you"? The science fiction of the spectacle' / Scott Bukatman. 6. 'Pulpmodernism: Tarantino's affirmative action' / Peter Brooker and Will Brooker. 7. 'New Hope: the postmodern project of Star Wars' / Will Brooker. 8. 'Postmodern modes of ethnicity' / Vivian Sobchack. 9. 'Recording narratives of race and nation' / Kobena Mercer -- Television: hyperreality and hybrid selves. 10. The medium is the message / Marshall McLuhan. 11. 'A guide to the Neo-Television of the 1980s' / Umberto Eco. 12. 'The end of the panopticon' / Jean Baudrillard. 13. 'The reality gulf' / Jean Baudrillard. 14. 'Postscript (Baudrillard's second Gulf War article)' / Christopher Norris |
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15. 'Ambivalent positionings: the Gulf War' / Marie Gillespie. 16. 'Beavis and Butt-Head: no future for postmodern youth' / Douglas Kellner. 17. 'Television and postmodernism' / Jim Collins. 18. 'Critical and Textual hypermasculinity' / Lynne Joyrich -- Video: commerce and collage. 19. 'Ways of thinking about music video (and postmodernism)' / Peter Wollen. 20. 'Feminism/Oedipus/postmodernism: the case of MTV' / E. Ann Kaplan. 21. from 'Surrealism without the unconscious' / Fredric Jameson. 22. 'Uncanny feminism' / Patricia Mellencamp. 23. 'That moment of emergence' / Pratibha Parmar |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
English |
| Subject |
Motion pictures -- Philosophy.
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Motion pictures -- Social aspects.
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Postmodernism -- Social aspects.
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Television broadcasting -- Social aspects.
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Television -- Philosophy.
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| Author |
Brooker, Peter.
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Brooker, Will, 1970-
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| LC no. |
96048152 |
| ISBN |
0340676914 (pb) |
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0340676922 (hb) |
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