Window Shopping Cinema and the Postmodern

Name: Window Shopping Cinema and the Postmodern
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ISBN: 9780520089242

ISBN-10: 0520089243

ISBN-13: 9780520089242

Edition: 1994

Authors: Anne Friedberg

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Departing from those who define postmodernism in film merely as a visual style or set of narrative conventions, Anne Friedberg develops the first sustained account of the cinema's role in postmodern culture. She explores the ways in which nineteenth-century visual experiences--photography, urban strolling, panorama and diorama entertainments--anticipate contemporary pleasures provided by cinema, video, shopping malls, and emerging "virtual reality" technologies. Comparing the visual practices of shopping, tourism, and film-viewing, Friedberg identifies the experience of "virtual" mobility through time and space as a key determinant of postmodern cultural identity. Evaluating the theories of…

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List price: $31.95
Copyright year: 1994
Publisher: University of California Press
Publication date: 8/31/1994
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 287
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.80" tall
Weight: 1.100
Language: English



Preface


Acknowledgments


Introduction: Looking Backward - An Introduction to the Concept of "Post"


The Past, the Present, the Virtual


Method


The "P" Word


A Road Map



The Mobilized and Virtual Gaze in Modernity: Flaneur/Flaneuse


Modernity and the "Panoptic" Gaze


Modernity and the "Virtual" Gaze


The Baudelairean Observer: The "Mobilized" Gaze of the Flaneur


The Gender of the Observer: The Flaneuse


The "Mobilized" and "Virtual" Gaze


Passage I: The Ladies' Paradise by Emile Zola



The Passage from Arcade to Cinema


The Commodity-Experience


Re: Construction - The Public Interior/The Private Exterior


The Mobilized Gaze: Toward the Virtual


From the Arcade to the Cinema


Passage II: A Short Film is More of a "Rest Cure"


The Cinema as Time Machine


Window-Shopping Through Time



Les Flaneurs/Flaneuse Du Mall


The Mall


Temporality and Cinema Spectatorship


Spectatorial Flanerie


Cybertechnology: From Observer to Participant


Postmodern Flanerie: To Spatialize Temporality


Passage III: Architecture: Looking Forward, Looking Backward



The End of Modernity: Where Is Your Rupture?


The Architectural Model


The Cinema and Modernity/Modernism: The "Avant-Garde" as a Troubling Third Term


Jameson and the Cinematic "Postmodern"


Cinema and Postmodernity


Postmodernity Without the Word


Conclusion: Spending Time


Post-Script: The Fate of Feminism in Postmodernity


Warnings at the Post


Postfeminism?


Beyond Indifference


Neither or Both: An Epilogue to the Period of the Plural


Notes


Index