| This Is a Picture and Not the World: Movies and a Post-9/11 America Contributor(s): Natoli, Joseph (Author) |
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ISBN: 079147027X ISBN-13: 9780791470275 Publisher: State University of New York Press OUR PRICE: $90.25 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: February 2007 Annotation: Uses satirical parodies of screenplays and political blogs to reveal the cracks in our post-9/11American psyche. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Performing Arts | Film - History & Criticism |
| Dewey: 791.430 |
| LCCN: 2006013427 |
| Series: Suny Postmodern Culture |
| Physical Information: 291 pages |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - 21st Century |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: In This Is a Picture and Not the World, Joseph Natoli employs the lingua franca of film itself--screenplay dialogue--as well as the more recent form of the political blog to present a hyperreal account of popular film as both a creator and a reflector of our post-9/11 mass psyche. Drawing on both classic and contemporary film examples, the book also offers a quasihistory of film genres, including science fiction, the western, film noir, and screwball comedy, emphasizing how these genres have been shaken up, recontextualized, recombined, turned self-reflexive, and parodied over the past couple of decades. Taken together, these satirical parodies of screenplays and blogs reveal and perform how our very gaze has shifted from modern to postmodern, from a direct view of the world to a filtered one. |