Recycled Culture in Contemporary Art and Film - The Uses of Nostalgia

Klappentext Vera Dika explores the reuse of images! plots and genres of film history from a broad range of critical perspectives. Examining works of art and film that resist the pull of the past! Dika provides an in-depth analysis within a variety of media! including performance! photography! Punk film! and examples from mainstream American and European cinema. Her study analyzes avant-garde art work within the context of contemporary mainstream film practice! as well as in relationship to their historical moment. Zusammenfassung In this study! Vera Dika explores works of art and film that resist the pull of the past. Her study positions avant-garde art work within the context of contemporary mainstream film practice! as well as in relationship to their historical moment. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. The returned image; 2. Art and film: New York City in the late 1970s: Jack Goldstein, Robert Longo, Cindy Sherman, Amos Poe; 3. Generic returns - the dream has ended: Badlands, Texas Chainsaw Massacre, The Shootist, The Last Waltz; 4. Re-considering the nostalgia film: American Graffiti, The Conformist, Rocky Horror Picture Show; 5. A return to the 1950s - the dangers in Utopia: Grease, Last Exit to Brooklyn; 6. Coppola and Scorsese - authorial views: Apocalypse Now, One From the Heart, The Last Temptation of Christ; 7. To destroy the sign: Gus Van Sant's Psycho, Geronimo, JFK.

Product details

• Authors: Vera Dika, Dika Vera
• Assisted by: Dudley Andrew (Editor), William Rothman (Editor)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 09.06.2003
• EAN: 9780521016315
• ISBN: 978-0-521-01631-5
• Dimensions: 155 mm x 230 mm x 15 mm
• Series: Cambridge Studies in Film
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Theatre, ballet; Non-fiction book > Music, film, theatre; ART / History / General, Films, cinema, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, History of Art, History of art & design styles: from c 1900 -, PERFORMING ARTS / Film / General