Postmodern Hollywood: What's New in Film and Why It Makes Us Feel So Strange

by M. Keith Booker

Book Overview

Postmodernism is essential to American culture today. We can see its manifestations on billboards and on television; we can hear its tone on the radio and in everyday conversation; and we can even sense its outlook in how we live our lives. This volume presents an accessible and brief summary of postmodernism, especially as it pertains to American cinema-one of the central players and leading lights in the development of this cultural attitude...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0275999009
• ISBN13: 9780275999001
• Release Date: July 2007
• Publisher: Praeger
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.4" x 9.3"