{"product_id":"signatures-of-the-visible-9780415771610","title":"Signatures of the Visible","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn such celebrated works as \u003cem\u003ePostmodernism: The Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism\u003c\/em\u003e, Fredric Jameson has established himself as one of Americaâs most observant cultural commentators. In \u003cem\u003eSignatures of the Visible,\u003c\/em\u003e Jameson turns his attention to cinema - the artform that has replaced the novel as the defining cultural form of our time. Historicizing a form that has flourished in a post-modern and anti-historical culture, he explores the allegorical and ideological dimensions of such films as \u003cem\u003eThe Shining\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eDog Day Afternoon\u003c\/em\u003e and the works of Alfred Hitchcock, among many others. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFifteen years on from its original publication, this remains a piercing and original analysis of film from a writer and thinker whose influence continues to be felt long after that of the fashionable post-modernists he has always critiqued.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e'Jameson aptly demonstrates why he remains among the most significant literary theorists of the late twentieth century.'\u003c\/strong\u003e - \u003cem\u003ePhilosophy and Literature\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIntroductionPart1: 1. Reification and Utopia in Mass Culture 2. Class and Allegory in Contemporary Mass Culture:  Dog Day Afternoon as a Political Film 3.  Diva and French Socialism 4. 'In the destructive element immerse': Hans-Jurgen Syberberg and Cultural Revolution 5. Historicism in  The Shining 6. Allegorizing Hitchcock 7. On Magic Realism in Film Part2:  8. The Existence of Italy Notes Index","brand":"Taylor \u0026 Francis","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51018193568087,"sku":"9780415771610","price":18.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780415771610.jpg?v=1750775973","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/signatures-of-the-visible-9780415771610","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}