Window Shopping: Cinema and the Postmodern - Rilegato

Friedberg, Anne

Rilegato

ISBN 10: 0520079167 ISBN 13: 9780520079168

Casa editrice: Univ of California Pr, 1993

Riassunto

Departing from those who define postmodernism in film merely as a visual style or set of narrative conventions, Anne Friedberg develops the first sustained account of the cinema's role in postmodern culture. She explores the ways in which nineteenth-century visual experiencesphotography, urban strolling, panorama and diorama entertainmentsanticipate contemporary pleasures provided by cinema, video, shopping malls, and emerging "virtual reality" technologies.

Comparing the visual practices of shopping, tourism, and film-viewing, Friedberg identifies the experience of "virtual" mobility through time and space as a key determinant of postmodern cultural identity. Evaluating the theories of Jameson, Lyotard, Baudrillard, and others, she adds critical insights about the role of gender and gender mobility in the configurations of consumer culture.

A strikingly original work, Window Shopping challenges many of the existing assumptions about what exactlypostmodern is. This book marks the emergence of a compelling new voice in the study of contemporary culture.

Su questo libro

L'autore:

Anne Friedberg i is the Professor and Chair of Critical Studies at the
University of Southern California School of Cinematic Arts.

Dalla seconda/terza di copertina:

"Friedberg's idea of the 'mobilized virtual gaze' may become the way we conceive of postmodern subjectivity. This book is in a class by itself."Linda Hutcheon, author ofThe Politics of Postmodernism

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Univ of California Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 1993
• ISBN 10: 0520079167
• ISBN 13: 9780520079168
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 287