This is a picture and not the world : movies and a post-9/11 America / Joseph Natoli.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Natoli, Joseph P., 1943-

Series:

SUNY series in postmodern culture.

The SUNY series in postmodern culture

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Motion pictures--United States.

Motion pictures.

Motion pictures--Social aspects--United States.

Motion pictures--Political aspects--United States.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (293 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Albany : State University of New York Press, c2007.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Front Matter

Contents

Behind the Scenes

Introduction

Outtake

Futurescape

Frontierscape

Noirscape

Sneak Preview

Documentary

Shortscape

Trailer

This Genre Does Not Exist

Fearscape/Thrillscape/Nightscape

American Cool

Epi-Blog

Index of Film Titles

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780791480489

0791480488

9781429472098

142947209X

OCLC:

138084720