Hauntings : popular film and American culture, 1990-1992
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Hauntings : popular film and American culture, 1990-1992
（SUNY series in postmodern culture / Joseph Natoli, editor）
State University of New York Press, c1994
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- : pbk., acid-free paper
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Note
Includes bibliographical references (p. 227-238)
Description and Table of Contents
Description
We are haunted by what we cannot fully identify, by what we cannot make identical to what we already are, have, and know. AIDS is visible, as is the South Central Los Angeles riot/revolt, the dead eyes of Amy Fisher, the pubic hair in Clarence Thomas' Coke, the Branch Davidian Compound shimmering in the distance, and much more. The intensity of all this does not escape the general public. Popular film plugs into this haunting power because it attracts a mass audience. This book is about what haunts the headlines as well as the Big Screen in America during 1990-1992.
Table of Contents
Prologue
Basic and Postmodern Instincts: The New Popular Realism in Film
Hunting the Haunted Heart
Moving Laterally across the Capes of Fear
Rebels and Rioters with Unsayable Causes
Home Alone Watching the Rodney King Tape, Or, Having Jeffrey Dahmer Over for Dinner
Rocking the Cradle of Family Values
Free Market or Free Play?
Intermezzo: Between Film and Culture
The Free Play of Popular Film
Geckoid Democracy and the Garfieldian American Dream
The Unforgiven: Histories and "Indians"
Robbin' N' the Hood N' the Nabe
Guns and Provolone: 'Wilding' and Wiseguys Doing the Wrong Thing
After Bob Roberts: Was This a Postmodern Presidential Campaign?
The Final Dance around the Planet: Green Space versus Self Space
Notes
by "Nielsen BookData"