Window Shopping: Cinema and the Postmodern

by 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"...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:0520089243

ISBN13:9780520089242

Release Date:August 1994

Publisher:University of California Press

Length:287 Pages

Weight:1.08 lbs.

Dimensions:0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"

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Arts, Music & Photography Criticism & Theory Film & Television History & Criticism Humor & Entertainment Movies Performing Arts Politics & Social Sciences Social Sciences Textbooks

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