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Book Synopsis Although "Postmodernism" has been a widely used catch word and its concept extensively discussed in philosophy, political thought, and the arts, many scholars still feel uneasy about it
Despite the fact that the concept can be traced back to Arnold Toynbee's 1939 edition of A Study of History, or even back into the nineteenth century, its amorphous nature continues to confound many scholars, not least because there are not one but several kinds of postmodernism, each one pointing to different states of questioning and to diverse ways of remembering, interpreting, and representing. This anthology makes a significant contribution to the current debate in that it offers sophisticated and multi-faceted discussions of a number of key issues in relation to cinema such as auteurism, national cinemas, metacinema, the parodic, history, and colonization.
Trade Review "these essays … provide interesting reading strategies and different systems of interpretations that may help us with the difficult task of being post-modern." · Film and Theory
Table of Contents Part I: The Ideological, the Mnemonic, the Parodic, and the Media
Part II: Issues of Cross-Cultural Identity and National Cinemas
Part III: Postmodernism and Tourism,(Post)History, and Colonization
Part IV: Auteurial Presences
