Postmodernism in the Cinema

Download or read book Postmodernism in the Cinema written by Cristina Degli-Esposti and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 1998 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of 13 essays from a fall 1994 conference in Kent, Ohio. They cover the ideological, the mnemonic, the parodic, and the media; issues of cross-cultural identity and national cinemas; postmodernism and tourism, (post)history, and colonization; and auteurial presences. Specific topics include Aladdin as a postmodern text, de- authorizing the auteur, imaginary geographies in contemporary French cinema, and the dual paternity of Querelle. No subject index. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR