Deception in modern art and Hollywood Jela Krecic

Format:

• Book

Author/Creator:

• Krečič, Jela, author.

Contributor:

• Bloomsbury (Firm), publisher.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

• Deception.
• Realism in motion pictures.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (240 pages) illustrations

Edition:

1st edition

Place of Publication:

London Bloomsbury Academic 2025

Summary:

In the last 200 years, the fear of deception has gained weight also in the fields of art and popular culture which were traditionally dedicated to creating artificial worlds. Truth and authenticity are more and more measured by fiction's ability to accurately reflect what we perceive as reality and to convincingly convey the psychological state of depicted personalities. If artworks engage in creating illusory worlds, they are more and more expected to indicate to viewers that they are dealing with deceptive strategies. But what if false appearances and fabricated representations are not simply devoid of truth? What if art and popular culture with all their fakery can critically and convincingly tackle individual or political predicaments? What if, as Jacques Lacan put it, truth has the structure of a fiction? The book pursues this topic at different levels: it explores philosophical implications of "being in the know" and the fear of deception within the theoretical frame of Hegelian dialectics and Lacanian psychoanalysis, while Marxist theoretical tradition - from Theodor Adorno to Fredric Jameson and Louis Althusser - is used to conceptualize the broader historical, social and political implications of the investigated ideas

Contents:

• Introduction: On Bad Life and Good Fiction
• 1. Modernism, Postmodernity, or the Fate of Self-Aware Art
• 2. Comedy, Acting, and Stardom ... And Fear of Falsity
• 3. Popular Culture and Its Discontents
• 4. The Trouble with Endings, or, Why TV Series Cannot End
• 5. Tarantino's Love Letter to Hollywood: Fiction against Ideology
• Bibliography
• Filmography

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references

Other Format:

Print version Krecic, Jela. Deception in modern art and Hollywood /

ISBN:

9781350515116

OCLC:

1520506050

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