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Book SynopsisThis 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.
Table of ContentsPREFACE
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
INTRODUCTION LOOKING BACKWARD-AN INTRODUCTION
TO THE CONCEPT OF "POST"
The Past, the Present, the Virtual
Method
The "P" Word
A Road Map
1 THE MOBILIZED AND VIRTUAL GAZE IN MODERNITY:
FLANEURIFLANEUSE
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
2 THE PASSAGE FROM ARCADE TO CINEMA
The Commodity-Experience
RE: Construction-The Public Interior/The Private Exterior
The Mobilized Gaze: T award 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
3 LES Fi.ANEURS/FLANEUSE DU MALL
The Mall
Temporality and Cinema Spectatorship
Spectatorial Flanerie
Cybertechnology: From Observer to Participant
Postmodern Flanerie: To Spatialize Temporality
PASSAGE Ill Architecture: Looking Foward, Looking Backward
4 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
