Keywords in Subversive Film/Media Aesthetics. (2015)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Robert Stam with Richard Porton and Leo Goldsmith.
• Authors: Stam, Robert, 1941-; Porton, Richard; Goldsmith, Leo
• Contents: Acknowledgements Introduction Chapter One: An Aesthetic of the Commons The Aesthetic Commons From Columbus to Indigenous Media First Peoples, First Features The Storytelling Commons Revisionist Adaptation and the Literary Commons Cultural Indigenization The Archival Commons and the Ab-original Musical Chapter Two: The Upside Down World of the Carnivalesque The People’s Second Life Sacred Parody Festive-Revolutionary Practices Unruly Women Polymorphous Celebrations Stand-up Comedy and Nuclear Catastrophe Contemporary Fools Pedagogic Provocations Tropes of Inversion Offside Cinema Chapter Three: Political Modernism and its Discontents The Two Avant-Gardes The Brechtian Legacy Beyond Brecht The Affective-Corporeal Turn The Rediscovery of Pleasure The Legacy of the V-Effect Political Cinema in the Age of the Posts Chapter Four: The Transmogrification of the Negative An Aesthetic of Mistakes Third Cinema: From Hunger to Garbage Sublime Detritus The Recombinant Sublime Anthropophagic Modernism Situationist Detournement Culture Jamming Neo-Situationism and the Aesthetics of Failure Media Jiujitsu The New Kino-Eye: Vision Machines Chapter Five: Hybrid Variations on a Documentary Theme The Fiction-Documentary Continuum Murderous Reenactments The Mediatic Spectrum From Representation to Self-Presentation The Strategic Advantages of Hybridization Performative Films The Essay Film and Mockumentaries Chapter Six: Hollywood Aristotelianism, the Fractured Chronotope, and the Musicalization of Cinema Hollywood Aristotelianism: the Orthodox Chronotope Alternatives to Aristotle: the Menippean Strain Pop Culture Anachronism and the Chronotope of the Road Baroque Modernism and the Marvelous American Real Trance-Modernism Contrapuntal Variations Transformative Becomings The Shape-Shiftings of Popular Culture Metaphysical Cine-Poetry Chapter Seven: Aesthetic/Political Innovation in the Digital Age The Interface Effect Beyond Accelerationism: Digital Montage and Duration Interactivity and Digital Détournement IRL Subversions: Tactical Media/Digital Materialism In Guise of a Conclusion Index of Terms
• Publisher Details: Chichester : Wiley Blackwell
• Publication Date: 2015
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 791.4301; Motion pictures -- Aesthetics; Motion pictures -- Political aspects
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781118340592
• Related ISBNs: 9781118288924
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
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