Hauntings - Popular Film and American Culture 1990-1992

Explores the way that popular film brings to a "sayable" level that which haunts us in the media headlines.
We are haunted by what we cannot fully identify, by what we cannot make identical to what we already are, have, and know. AIDS is visible, as is the South Central Los Angeles riot/revolt, the dead eyes of Amy Fisher, the pubic hair in Clarence Thomas' Coke, the Branch Davidian Compound shimmering in the distance, and much more. The intensity of all this does not escape the general public. Popular film plugs into this haunting power because it attracts a mass audience. This book is about what haunts the headlines as well as the Big Screen in America during 1990-1992.

About the author

Now retired, Joseph Natoli spent more than four decades teaching at the university level and twenty years as the editor of the SUNY book series in Postmodern Culture. He is the author of many books, including Hauntings: Popular Film and American Culture 1990-1992; Speeding to the Millennium: Film and Culture 1993-1995; Postmodern Journeys: Film and Culture 1996-1998; Memory's Orbit: Film and Culture 1999-2000; and This Is a Picture and Not the World: Movies and a Post-9/11 America, all published by SUNY Press.

Product details

• Authors: Joseph Natoli
• Publisher: State University of New York Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 15.12.1994
• EAN: 9780791421536
• ISBN: 978-0-7914-2153-6
• No. of pages: 250
• Weight: 508 g
• Series: SUNY Series, Educational Leade; SUNY Series, Educational Leade; Suny Postmodern Culture
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Theatre, ballet; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > General, dictionaries