Postmodern Hollywood: What's New in Film and Why It Makes Us Feel So Strange by M. Keith Booker

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



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Postmodern Hollywood: What's New in Film and Why It Makes Us Feel So Strange M. Keith Booker
Language: English
Page: 240
Format: pdf
ISBN: 0275999009, 9780275999001
Publisher: Praeger

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"The prolific Booker contributes a valuable cultural critique of postmodernism in contemporary film. Building on the theory of Fredric Jameson, the author addresses such postmodern manifestations as the nostalgic use of music, fragmentation, hyperlink editing, and pastiche. Perhaps his most important contribution is his examination of individual postmodern filmmakers: Tim Burton, David Cronenberg, Joel and Ethan Coen, Brian De Palma, Quentin Tarantino, David Lynch, et al. Transforming the notion of the auteur, Booker demonstrates how these filmmakers are not necessarily visionary singular artists but directors who know how to borrow from the past in creative and, at times, unnerving ways. Postmodernism challenges the traditional notion of creativity in film production. Booker's discussion of the relationship between late capitalism and postmodern filmmaking introduces intriguing new questions about cinematic challenges to hegemony and ideology…. this volume is absolutely necessary for those interested in contemporary film. The passages on such individual postmodern films as Requiem for a Dream and The Man Who Wasn't There will inform and structure undergraduate research papers for a generation. Essential. Upper-division undergraduates through faculty and professionals."

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"Postmodern Hollywood skillfully combines discussions of cinematic style and technique with investigations of more traditional substances--like plot and character--and thus offers an informative survey of recent and contemporary films. M. Keith Booker's attention to topics like pastiche and nostalgia make postmodernism accessible to all. The volume gives new insights into every film it discusses and makes an important contribution to criticism on the modern cinema."

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David See, Chair of American Literature, Liverpool University

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