Title: Postmodern after-images : a reader in film, television, and video /
Authors: Brooker, Peter.; Brooker, Will, 1970-
Publisher: Arnold,
Year: 1997
Subjects: Motion pictures Philosophy; Motion pictures Social aspects; Television Philosophy; Television broadcasting Social aspects; Postmodernism Social aspects.
Contents: Film. Sect. I. nostalgia and the unknown. 1. 'The nostalgia mode' and 'Nostalgia for the present' / Fredric Jameson. 2. 'Postmodern film?' / Linda Hutcheon. 3. 'From here to modernity' / Barbara Creed. Sect. II. styles of pluralism. 4. 'Time and space in the postmodern cinema' / David Harvey. 5. '"Who programs you"? The science fiction of the spectacle' / Scott Bukatman. 6. 'Pulpmodernism: Tarantino's affirmative action' / Peter Brooker and Will Brooker. 7. 'New Hope: the postmodern project of Star Wars' / Will Brooker. 8. 'Postmodern modes of ethnicity' / Vivian Sobchack. 9. 'Recording narratives of race and nation' / Kobena Mercer -- Television: hyperreality and hybrid selves. 10. The medium is the message / Marshall McLuhan. 11. 'A guide to the Neo-Television of the 1980s' / Umberto Eco. 12. 'The end of the panopticon' / Jean Baudrillard. 13. 'The reality gulf' / Jean Baudrillard. 14. 'Postscript (Baudrillard's second Gulf War article)' / Christopher Norris.