Window Shopping: Cinema and the Postmodern

Author/Artist/Editor

Anne Friedberg

Type

Book, Hard Copy

Date

1993

Press/Publisher

U of California P

Language

English

Description

This account of the cinema's role in postmodern culture explores the way in which 19th-century visual experiences, such as photography and diorama entertainments, anticipated contemporary pleasures provided by film

Important Notes

Publisher Synopsis

""Window Shopping takes its provocative place among a number of recent studies that look at looking itself in relation to mechanically produced images. . . . [It will] be a source of further reflection and inspiration: it moves on the sometimes footsore debates about post-modern culture, feminism and cinema spectatorship in new and stimulating directions."--Rachel Bowlby, "Sight and Sound

Keywords

Film, Cinema, postmodern

ISSN/ISBN

9780520079168

Availability

Available

OCLC

45728739