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Title Postmodernism in the cinema / edited by Cristina Degli-Esposti
Published New York : Berghahn Books, 1998

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Description viii, 264 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Contents Machine derived contents note: Introduction Postmodernism(s) 3 -- Cristina Degli-Esposti -- -- PART I - THE IDEOLOGICAL, THE MNEMONIC, THE PARODIC, -- AND THE MEDIA 19 -- -- Chapter 1 The Player's Parody of Hollywood: A Different 21 -- Kind of Suture -- Cynthia Baron -- -- Chapter 2 Intertextual Maneuvers around the Subaltern: 45 -- Aladdin as a Postmodern Text -- Marwan M. Kraidy -- -- Chapter 3 Of Mice and Bart: The Simpsons and the -- Postmodern 61 -- David Weinstein -- -- Chapter 4 Reification and Loss in Postmodern Puberty: 73 -- The Cultural Logic of Fredric Jameson and -- American Youth Movies -- Timothy Shary -- -- PART II - ISSUES OF CROSS-CULTURAL IDENTITY -- AND NATIONAL CINEMAS 91 -- -- Chapter 5 Refiguring Pleasure: Itami and the Postmodem 93 -- Japanese Film -- John Bruns -- -- -- -- -- -- Chapter 6 De-Authorizing the Auteur: Postmodern Politics of 113 -- Interpellation in Contemporary European Cinema -- Rosanna Maule -- -- Chapter 7 Postmodernist Condition in Post-Socialist 131 -- Eastern European Films: The Case of a Political -- Pastiche and the Socialist-Hollywood Thriller in -- Recent Films of Polish Filmmakers -- Janina Falkowska -- -- PART III - POSTMODERNISM AS TOURISM, (POST)HISTORY, AND -- COLONIZATION 145 -- -- Chapter 8 E.M. Forster's Anti-Touristic Tourism and the 147 -- Sightseeing Gaze of Cinema -- Ellen Strain -- -- Chapter 9 Imaginary Geographies: The Colonial Subject in 167 -- Contemporary French Cinema -- Christine Bolus-Reichert -- -- Chapter 10 Decapitated Spectators: Barton Fink, (Post)history, 187 -- and Cinematic Pleasure -- Barry Laga -- -- PART IV- AUTEURIAL PRESENCES 208 -- -- Chapter 11 Something Like Autobiography in Akira 211 -- Kurosawa's Dreams -- Marshall Deutelbaum -- -- Chapter 12 Not Waving but Drowning by Numbers: 219 -- Peter Greenaway's Cautionary Tale -- Philip Holden-Moses -- -- Chapter 13 A Double Voice: The Dual Paternity of Querelle 231 -- Mary M. Wiles
Analysis POSTMODERNISM AND THE CINEMA
POSTMODERNISM AND TV/VIDEO
POSTMODERNISM AND TV/VIDEO. USA
POSTMODERNISM AND THE CINEMA. USA
POSTMODERNISM AND THE CINEMA. JAPAN
POSTMODERNISM AND THE CINEMA. POLAND
POLAND
TRAVEL IN FILMS
FRANCE
IMPERIALISM AND THE CINEMA. AFRICAN COUNTRIES
IMPERIALISM AND THE CINEMA. FRANCE
HISTORY AND THE CINEMA
ARABS IN FILMS
RACIAL STEREOTYPES IN FILMS
ANIMATION
YOUNG PEOPLE, FILMS FOR
ADAPTATIONS. FORSTER, E. M
ADAPTATIONS. GENET, JEAN
AUTEUR THEORY
DEGLI-ESPOSTI, CHRISTINA
BARON, CYNTHIA
KRAIDY, MARWAN
WEINSTEIN, DAVID
SHARY, TIMOTHY
BRUNS, JOHN
MAULE, ROSANNA
FALKOWSKA, JANINA
STRAIN, ELLEN
BOLUS-REICHERT, CHRISTINE
LAGA, BARRY
DEUTELBAUM, MARSHALL
HOLDEN-MOSES, PHILIP
WILES, MARY
ALTMAN, ROBERT
JAMESON, FREDRIC
ITAMI, JUZO
FORSTER, E. M
COEN, JOEL & ETHAN
KUROSAWA, AKIRA
GREENAWAY, PETER
FASSBINDER, RAINER, WERNER
PLAYER, THE (US, Robert Altman, 1992)
ALADDIN (US, John Musker & Ron Clements, 1992)
SIMPSONS, THE [TV] (US, 1989-)
BILL AND TED'S EXCELLENT ADVENTURE (US, Stephen Herek, 1989)
WAYNE'S WORLD (US, Penelope Spheeris, 1992)
SINGLES (US, Cameron Crowe, 1992)
REALITY BITES (US, Ben Stiller, 1994)
TAMPOPO (JA, Juzo Itami, 1986)
A NOS AMOURS (FR, Maurice Pialat, 1983)
MESSA E FINITA, LA (IT, Nanni Moretti, 1985)
QUE HE HECHO PARA MERECER ESTO!! (SP, Pedro Almodovar, 1984)
PSY (PL, Wladyslaw Pasikowski, 1993)
CZLOWIEK Z ... (PL, Konrad Szolajski, 1993)
WHERE ANGELS FEAR TO TREAD (UK, Charles Sturridge, 1991)
ROOM WITH A VIEW, A (UK, James Ivory, 1986)
PASSAGE TO INDIA, A (US/UK, David Lean, 1984)
COUP DE TORCHON (FR, Bertrand Tavernier, 1981)
VICTOIRE EN CHANTANT, LA (FR/GW, Jean-Jacques Annaud, 1976)
CHOCOLAT (FR, Claire Denis, 1988)
BARTON FINK (US, Joel Cohen, 1991)
DREAMS (US, Akira Kurosawa, 1990)
DROWNING BY NUMBERS (UK, Peter Greenaway, 1988)
QUERELLE (GW/FR, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, 1982)
Notes Papers from a conference held in 1994 at Kent State University, Kent, Ohio
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Subject Postmodernism -- Social aspects -- Congresses.
Motion pictures -- Philosophy -- Congresses.
Postmodernism in motion pictures -- Congresses
Motion pictures -- Social aspects -- Congresses.
Genre/Form Conference papers and proceedings.
Author Degli-Esposti, Cristina.
LC no. 97046957
ISBN 1571811052 acid-free paper
1571811060 acid-free paper