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Signatures of the Visible (Routledge Classics) Book

Paperback. Pub Date :2007-02-26 Pages: 360 Language: English Publisher: Routledge In such celebrated works as Postmodernism: The Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism. Fredric Jameson has established himself as one of America's most observant cultural commentators. In Signatures of the Visible. Jameson turns his attention to cinema - the artform that has replaced the novel as the defining cultural form of our time. Historicizing a form that has flourished in a post-modern and anti-historical culture. he explores the allegorical and ideological dimensions of such films as The Shining. Dog Day Afternoon and the works of Alfred Hitchcock. among many others.Fifteen years on from its original publication. this remains a piercing and original analysis of film from a writer and thinker whose influence continues to be felt long after that of the fashionable post-modernists he has always...Read More

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  • Foyles

    In such celebrated works as Postmodernism: The Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism, Fredric Jameson has established himself as one of America’s most observant cultural commentators. In Signatures of the Visible, Jameson turns his attention to cinema - the artform that has replaced the novel as the defining cultural form of our time. Historicizing a form that has flourished in a post-modern and anti-historical culture, he explores the allegorical and ideological dimensions of such films as The Shining, Dog Day Afternoon and the works of Alfred Hitchcock, among many others. Fifteen years on from its original publication, this remains a piercing and original analysis of film from a writer and thinker whose influence continues to be felt long after that of the fashionable post-modernists he has always critiqued.

  • Waterstones

    Written by the author of ''Postmodernism: The Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism'', this book explores film and film culture through the relationship between the imaginative world on screen and the historical world onto which it is projected.

  • Product Description

    In such celebrated works as Postmodernism: The Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism, Fredric Jameson has established himself as one of America’s most observant cultural commentators. In Signatures of the Visible, Jameson turns his attention to cinema - the artform that has replaced the novel as the defining cultural form of our time. Historicizing a form that has flourished in a post-modern and anti-historical culture, he explores the allegorical and ideological dimensions of such films as The Shining, Dog Day Afternoon and the works of Alfred Hitchcock, among many others.

    Fifteen years on from its original publication, this remains a piercing and original analysis of film from a writer and thinker whose influence continues to be felt long after that of the fashionable post-modernists he has always critiqued.

  • 0415771617
  • 9780415771610
  • Fredric Jameson
  • 1 February 2007
  • Routledge
  • Paperback (Book)
  • 360
  • 1
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