The crisis of political modernism : criticism and ideology in contemporary film theory / D. N. Rodowick.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Rodowick, David Norman, author.

Contributor:

American Council of Learned Societies.

Series:

ACLS Humanities E-Book.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Film criticism.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xxix, 311 p. )

Edition:

Reprint 2019

Place of Publication:

Berkeley, California : University of California Press, [1994]

Language Note:

English

System Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

Summary:

D.N. Rodowick offers a critical analysis of the development of film theory since 1968. He shows how debates concerning the literary principles of modernism--semiotics, structuralism, psychoanalysis, Marxism, and feminism--have transformed our understanding of cinematic meaning. Rodowick explores the literary paradigms established in France during the late 1960s and traces their influence on the work of diverse filmmaker/theorists including Jean-Luc Godard, Peter Gidal, Laura Mulvey, and Peter Wollen. By exploring the "new French feminisms" of Irigaray and Kristeva, he investigates the relation of political modernism to psychoanalysis and theories of sexual difference. In a new introduction written especially for this edition, Rodowick considers the continuing legacy of this theoretical tradition in relation to the emergence of cultural studies approaches to film.

Contents:

Front matter

Contents

Preface to the Second Edition

Acknowledgments

ONE The Discourse of Political Modernism

TWO Modernism and Semiology

THREE Ideology and Criticism

FOUR Formalism and "Deconstruction"

FIVE Anti-Narrative, or the Ascetic Ideal

SIX Language, Narrative, Subject (1): The Critique of "Ontological" Modernism

SEVEN Language, Narrative, Subject (2): Narration and Negativity

EIGHT Sexual Difference

NINE The Crisis of Political Modernism

Index

Notes:

Originally published: Urbana : University of Illinois Press, 1988.

Includes bibliographies and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780520915169

052091516X

OCLC:

1153477347