rethinking Hollywood's aesthetics Constable, Catherine. creator text bibliography nyu New York Wallflower Press [2015] 2015 monographic eng

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vii, 135 p. : ill. ; 20 cm. "This volume focuses on postmodern film aesthetics, and contemporary challenges to the aesthetic paradigms dominating analyses of Hollywood cinema. It explores conceptions of the classical, modernist, post-classical/new Hollywood, and their construction as linear history of style in which postmodernism forms a debatable final act. This history is challenged by using Jean-Francois Lyotard's non-linear conception of postmodernism in order to view postmodern aesthetics as a paradigm that can occur across the history of Hollywood. This study also explores 'nihilistic' theorists of the postmodern. Jean Baudrillard and Frederic Jameson, and 'affirmative' theories, notably Linda Hutcheon, charting the ways in which the latter provide the means to conceptualise nuanced and positive variants of postmodern aesthetics and deploying them in the analysis of Hollywood films, including Bombshell, Sherlock Junior and Kill Bill."-- From back cover. Catherine Constable. Includes bibliographical references (pages 123-128) and index. n-us--- n-us-ca Motion pictures United States Aesthetics Postmodernism United States Motion pictures United States History 20th century Motion pictures United States History 21st century Hollywood (Los Angeles, Calif.) Cine Historia Estados Unidos Siglo XX Cine Historia Estados Unidos Siglo XXI Cine Estética Cine Historia Estados Unidos PN 1995 C756p 2015 791.4301 9780231174558 (pbk. : alk. paper) 0231174551 (pbk. : alk. paper) 2015298115 BTCTA 160419 20230410130617.0 123290 eng