Fredric Jameson

Signatures of the Visible

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

In Signatures of the Visible, one of America's most influential critics explores film and film culture through the relationship between the imaginative world on screen and the historical world onto which it is projected.

Produktdetails

• Routledge Classics
• Verlag: Routledge / Taylor & Francis
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: RU7716Z
• Seitenzahl: 362
• Erscheinungstermin: 26. Februar 2007
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 198mm x 129mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 384g
• ISBN-13: 9780415771610
• ISBN-10: 0415771617
• Artikelnr.: 22529695

Autorenporträt

Fredric Jameson is one of the most respected cultural critics working in America today and one of postmodernism's most savage critics. Currently William A. Lane Professor of Comparative Literature and Romance Studies at Duke University, he is the author of The Political Unconscious.

Inhaltsangabe

IntroductionPart1: 1. Reification and Utopia in Mass Culture 2. Class and Allegory in Contemporary Mass Culture: Dog Day Afternoon as a Political Film 3. Diva and French Socialism 4. 'In the destructive element immerse': Hans-Jurgen Syberberg and Cultural Revolution 5. Historicism in The Shining 6. Allegorizing Hitchcock 7. On Magic Realism in Film Part2: 8. The Existence of Italy Notes Index

Rezensionen

'Jameson aptly demonstrates why he remains among the most significant literary theorists of the late twentieth century.' - Philosophy and Literature

'Jameson aptly demonstrates why he remains among the most significant literary theorists of the late twentieth century.' - Philosophy and Literature