Signatures of the visible
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Signatures of the visible
（Routledge classics）
Routledge, 2007, c1992
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First published: 1992
"With an introduction by the author"
Includes bibliographical references and index
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Description
In such celebrated works as Postmodernism: The Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism, Fredric Jameson has established himself as one of America's most observant cultural commentators. In Signatures of the Visible, Jameson turns his attention to cinema - the artform that has replaced the novel as the defining cultural form of our time. Historicizing a form that has flourished in a post-modern and anti-historical culture, he explores the allegorical and ideological dimensions of such films as The Shining, Dog Day Afternoon and the works of Alfred Hitchcock, among many others.
Fifteen years on from its original publication, this remains a piercing and original analysis of film from a writer and thinker whose influence continues to be felt long after that of the fashionable post-modernists he has always critiqued.
Table of Contents
IntroductionPart1: 1. Reification and Utopia in Mass Culture 2. Class and Allegory in Contemporary Mass Culture: Dog Day Afternoon as a Political Film 3. Diva and French Socialism 4. 'In the destructive element immerse': Hans-Jurgen Syberberg and Cultural Revolution 5. Historicism in The Shining 6. Allegorizing Hitchcock 7. On Magic Realism in Film Part2: 8. The Existence of Italy Notes Index
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