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Recycled culture in contemporary art and film : the uses of nostalgia / Vera Dika.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Dika, Vera, 1951- author.
- Series:
- Cambridge studies in film.
- Cambridge studies in film
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Nostalgia in motion pictures.
- Nostalgia in art.
- Art, American--20th century.
- Art, American.
- Culture in motion pictures.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xi, 241 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Other Title:
- Recycled Culture in Contemporary Art & Film
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2003.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- The reuse of images, plots and genres from film history has become prominent in contemporary culture. In this 2003 study, Vera Dika explores this phenomenon from a broad range of critical perspectives, examining works of art and film that resist the pull of the past. Dika provides an in-depth analysis of works in several media, including performance, photography, Punk film, and examples from mainstream American and European cinema. Proclaiming the renewed importance of the image and of genre, she investigates works as diverse as Cindy Sherman's Untitled Film Stills, Amos Poe's The Foreigner, Terence Malick's Badlands, and Francis Ford Coppola's One from the Heart. Her study positions avant-garde art work within the context of contemporary mainstream film practice, as well as in relationship to their historical moment.
- Contents:
- pt. 1: The returned image
- The photographic/film image
- Attacks on the image
- The new image
- The nostalgia film
- Strategies of resistance
- Mainstream film in the 1970s
- A cinema of loneliness
- The MOCA show
- pt. 2: Art and film: New York City in the late 1970s
- The structural film
- Pictures
- Jack Goldstein
- Two fencers
- Robert Longo
- Cindy Sherman
- Amos Poe
- pt. 3: Returned genres: The dream has ended
- Badlands
- The return of the real
- The Texas chainsaw massacre
- The shootist
- The last waltz
- pt. 4: Reconsidering the nostalgia film
- American graffiti
- The conformist
- The rocky horror picture show
- pt. 5: A return to the 1950s: The dangers in Utopia
- Grease
- Utopia rejected
- Last exit to Brooklyn
- pt. 6: Coppola and Scorsese: Authorial views
- Apocalypse now
- One from the heart
- The last temptation of Christ
- pt. 7: To destroy the sign
- The loss of the real
- Television
- Serialized forms
- The return of the classical film genres
- The stalker film
- The western
- The gangster/crime film.
- Notes:
- Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 231-235) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781139086035
- 1139086030
- 9780511814297
- 0511814291
- OCLC:
- 935274683
- Publisher Number:
- 2027/heb07578 hdl
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