Film - Social Aspects, Postmodernism, Film Theory & Appreciation, Social Sciences - General & Miscellaneous
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Overview
In Postmodern Journeys, Joseph Natoli continues to chronicle how our responses to headline events and popular film help script the ways in which we imagine ourselves and the world around us. Here we clearly see how svelte marketing strategies take the present pulse of the American mass psyche in order to play to the frustrations and anxieties, the desires and hauntings that can neither be fully faced nor totally ignored. In the years covered here, films such as Fargo, Titanic, Boogie Nights, Jerry Maguire, Saving Private Ryan, and Good Will Hunting crisscrossed such headline events as the deaths of Princess Diana and Mother Theresa, a record-breaking Dow, welfare "reform," the fall of Newt Gringrich, the rise of Jesse Ventura, and, overshadowing everything, Monica Lewinsky, Bill Clinton, and Ken Starr. Somewhere in the intersection of what the record shows and how popular film and culture put us into play with that record lies the postmodern American landscape we are imagining and creating. Part memoir, part cultural criticism, Postmodern Journeys continues the fast-paced ride into the imagined time and place.Editorials
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Natoli (postmodernism and cultural studies, Center for Integrative Studies, Michigan State U.) chronicles popular responses to headline events and popular films in order to show the way we imagine ourselves and the world in postmodern fashion. In the years covered, the appearance of such films as and intersected with events like the deaths of Princess Diana and Mother Theresa, a recod-breaking Dow, welfare change, the fall of Newt Gingrich, the ascension of Jesse Ventura, and the Clinton-Lewinsky scandal. Part memoir and part criticism, the book plays film against events to produce Natoli's view of the postmodern American landscape in the process of creation. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)Douglas Kellner
Engaging, provocative, and full of insight into current culture, society, and politics.Book Details
Published
December 1, 2000
Publisher
Albany, N.Y. : State University of New York Press, c2001.
Pages
287
Format
Paperback
ISBN
9780791447727