Postmodern Cinema

The Voice of the Other in Canadian Film

Inbunden, Engelska, 2002

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Beskrivning

A Postmodern Cinema: The Voice of the Other in Canadian Film is both an informative description of postmodern and poststructuralist theory and an enlightening illustration of how Canadian filmmakers have used postmodern and poststructuralist cinematic technique in Canadian film. The book explores four films, Atom Egoyan's Family Viewing, Denys Aracand's Jesus of Montreal, Patricia Rozema's I've Heard the Mermaids Singing, and Bill MacGillivray's Life Classes. Using Canadian culture as an example of a marginalized culture, each film illustrates a different aspect of the marginalized experience. This book proposes a new scheme for a poststructuralist film theory. The author deals with the transition from modernism to postmodernism in literature and film and focuses on the relationship of Canadian film history to the formation of a Canadian identity.

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Utgivningsdatum:2002-03-20
Mått:145 x 225 x 24 mm
Vikt:499 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:240
Förlag:Scarecrow Press
ISBN:9780810840980

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Mary Alemany-Galway teaches Media Studies at Massey University in New Zealand. Previously she taught Film Studies in Canada at Concordia University and Queen's University. She is the co-editor of Peter Greenaway's Postmodern/Poststructuralist Cinema (Scarecrow Press, 2001).

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...[has] much to offer...[raises] important questions about theorizing the spectator in the context of a national cinema at a time when the spread of multiculturalism and globalization is placing enormous pressure on traditional ideas of national identity.

Innehållsförteckning

Chapter 1 1. Toward a Postmodern Film TheoryChapter 2 2. The Importance of Eisenstein's Theories to PostmodernismChapter 3 3. Bazin: Phenomenology and PostmodernismChapter 4 4. Metz: Structuralist Film Theory in the Light of PoststructuralismChapter 5 5. The Turning Point to Postmodernism: The New Novel and Last Year at MarienbadChapter 6 6. Canadian Film History and Canadian Identity: Realism, Modernism, and PostmodernismChapter 7 7. Jesus of MontrealChapter 8 8. I've Heard the Mermaids SingingChapter 9 9. Family ViewingChapter 10 10. Life ClassesChapter 11 11. Conclusion