Postmodernism and Film: Rethinking Hollywood's Aesthetics

by Catherine Constable

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 ois Lyotard's non-linear conception of postmodernism in order to view postmodern...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0231174551
• ISBN13: 9780231174558
• Release Date: June 2015
• Publisher: Wallflower Press
• Length: 144 Pages
• Weight: 0.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.9" x 7.7"