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Signatures of the Visible - Couverture souple

Jameson, Fredric

 
9780415900126: Signatures of the Visible
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 0415900123 ISBN 13 : 9780415900126
Editeur : Routledge, 1993

Synopsis

"The visual is essentially pornographic," writes Fredric Jameson, "films ask us to stare at the world as though it were a naked body." In Signatures of the Visible, one of America's most influential critics explores film and the culture surrounding it, interrogating the relationship between the imaginative screen world and the historical world onto which it is projected. By seeking the historical dimension of the visual, Jameson evaluates the power of the filmic form as a vehicle for the critique of culture and the diagnosis of social life. Jameson pursues this investigation through readings of politics, class, allegory, magic realism, and "the historical" in such films as Diva, The Shining, and Dog Day Afternoon. Throughout the book, he is concerned with the relationship between the achievements and limits of contemporary film theory itself, "a relationship," he argues, "which allows one to take the temperature of history itself."

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À propos de l'auteur

Fredric Jameson is Director of the Graduate Program in Literature at Duke University.

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Éditeur
Routledge
Date d'édition
1993
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0415900123
ISBN 13 
9780415900126
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
262
Coordonnées du fabricant
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Personne responsable
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