Images of Postmodern Society : Social Theory and Contemporary Cinema
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Format
Paperback / Softback
ISBN-10
0803985169
ISBN-13
9780803985162
Publisher
Sage Publications Ltd
Imprint
Sage Publications Ltd
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Aug 27th, 1991
Print length
192 Pages
Weight
296 grams
Dimensions
15.70 x 23.50 x 1.10 cms
Product Classification:
Film theory & criticismCultural studiesSociology & anthropology
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'The book begins with one of the clearest and most interesting introductions to the postmodern terrain I have seen, followed by analysis of `postmodern social theory'... an interesting and illuminating treatment of movies and an insightful critique of the work of Baudrillard, Lyotard and Jameson' - Discourse & Society
By using a series of studies of contemporary mainstream Hollywood movies - Blue Velvet, Wall Street, Crimes and Misdemeanors, When Harry Met Sally, Sex Lies and Videotape, Do the Right Thing - Norman Denzin explores the tension between ideas of the postmodern, and traditional ways of analyzing society. The discussion moves between two forms of text: social theory and cinematic representations of contemporary life.
Denzin analyzes the ideas of society embedded in poststructuralism, postmodernism, feminism, cultural studies and Marxism through the ideas of key theorists like Baudrillard, Barthes, Habermas, Jameson, Bourdieu and Derrida. He relates these to the problematic of the postmodern self as exposed in cinema centering on the decisive performance of race, gender and class.
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