Postmodernism and film : rethinking Hollywood's aesthetics
- Submitting institution
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The University of Warwick
- Unit of assessment
- 33 - Music, Drama, Dance, Performing Arts, Film and Screen Studies
- Output identifier
- 10048
- Type
- A - Authored book
- DOI
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- Publisher
- Wallflower Press
- ISBN
- 9780231174558
- Open access status
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- Month of publication
- June
- Year of publication
- 2015
- URL
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- Supplementary information
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
- COVID-19 affected output statement
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- Forensic science
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- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
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- Number of additional authors
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0
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- Proposed double-weighted
- Yes
- Double-weighted statement
- This monograph investigates the theme of postmodern cinema by focussing on Hollywood and the ways in which the postmodern turn has been conceptualised from a variety of perspectives. The book challenges the orthodox conception of the postmodern as an historical epoch that falls after/is contemporaneous with the post-classical/New Hollywood, creating a new paradigm for rethinking Hollywood’s aesthetics as always already postmodern. The book conjoins theory and close textual analysis to explore the differing perspectives offered by nihilistic and affirmative postmodern theorists, arguing in favour of an affirmative model of postmodern Hollywood, which is developed through detailed analysis of three films.
- Reserve for an output with double weighting
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- Author contribution statement
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- Non-English
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- English abstract
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