num_pages: 360
description: In such celebrated works as 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.
language: English
title: Signatures of the Visible
titlecomplete: Signatures of the Visible (Routledge Classics)
genres: Theory, Philosophy, Academic, Film, Nonfiction, Art
ratings_count: 71
publisher: Routledge