Ebook: Postmodernism and film: rethinking Hollywood's aesthestics

This volume focuses on postmodern film aesthetics, and contemporary challenges to the aesthetic paradigms dominating analyses of Hollywood cinema. It explores conceptions of the classical, modernist, postclassical/new Hollywood, and their construction as linear history of style in which postmodernism forms a debatable final act. This history is challenged by using Lyotard's non-linear conception of postmodernism in order to view postmodern aesthetics as a paradigm that can occur across the history of Hollywood.;1. Classical/Post-classical/Postmodern -- 2. Nihilistic Postmodernisms -- 3. Affirmative Postmodernisms.