Cinema and Cultural Modernity (Issues in Cultural and Media Studies) - Hardcover

Branston, Gill

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 033520077X ISBN 13: 9780335200771

Verlag: Open University Press, 2000

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Book by Branston Gill

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Reseña del editor:

This volume carves a lucid path through the central debates of film and cinema studies and explores these in their social and political contexts. The book includes histories of the ways in which we view Hollywood's global dominance, up to the development of late modernity and the declaration of "postmodernity". In an accessible fashion, it discusses changing theorizations of the economics, audiences, and fascinations of cinema, addressing concepts such as agency, negotiation and identification, and global "popularity" within contemporary cultures of celebrity, consumption and the visual. Gill Branston outlines the need for cinema study that is both sensitive to the formal "textiness" of films, but also less anxious about arguing for its position within broad agendas of representation. At the same time, the author links such areas to both the pleasures of consumption, which cinema so often evokes and embodies, and to the need for a new, critical politics to address the persistent inequalities of modernity, inequalities which still fuel lively interest in questions of representation.

Biografía del autor:

Branston is a lecturer in Journalism, Media and Cultural Studies at the University of Cardiff.

Über diese Auflage

• Verlag: Open University Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2000
• ISBN 10: 033520077X
• ISBN 13: 9780335200771
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 224