Window Shopping
豆瓣
Cinema and the Postmodern
Anne Friedberg
簡介
Departing from those who define postmodernism in film merely as a visual style or set of narrative conventions, Anne Friedberg develops the first sustained account of the cinema's role in postmodern culture. She explores the ways in which nineteenth-century visual experiences--photography, urban strolling, panorama and diorama entertainments--anticipate contemporary pleasures provided by cinema, video, shopping malls, and emerging "virtual reality" technologies.
Comparing the visual practices of shopping, tourism, and film-viewing, Friedberg identifies the experience of "virtual" mobility through time and space as a key determinant of postmodern cultural identity. Evaluating the theories of Jameson, Lyotard, Baudrillard, and others, she adds critical insights about the role of gender and gender mobility in the configurations of consumer culture.
A strikingly original work, Window Shopping challenges many of the existing assumptions about what exactly postmodern is. This book marks the emergence of a compelling new voice in the study of contemporary culture.
contents
Preface
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Looking Backward - An Introduction to the Concept of "Post" p. 1
The Past, the Present, the Virtual p. 1
Method p. 5
The "P" Word p. 9
A Road Map p. 11
The Mobilized and Virtual Gaze in Modernity: Flaneur/Flaneuse p. 15
Modernity and the "Panoptic" Gaze p. 17
Modernity and the "Virtual" Gaze p. 20
The Baudelairean Observer: The "Mobilized" Gaze of the Flaneur p. 29
The Gender of the Observer: The Flaneuse p. 32
The "Mobilized" and "Virtual" Gaze p. 37
Passage I: The Ladies' Paradise by Emile Zola p. 41
The Passage from Arcade to Cinema p. 47
The Commodity-Experience p. 53
Re: Construction - The Public Interior/The Private Exterior p. 61
The Mobilized Gaze: Toward the Virtual p. 68
From the Arcade to the Cinema p. 90
Passage II: A Short Film is More of a "Rest Cure" p. 97
The Cinema as Time Machine p. 100
Window-Shopping Through Time p. 104
Les Flaneurs/Flaneuse Du Mall p. 109
The Mall p. 111
Temporality and Cinema Spectatorship p. 125
Spectatorial Flanerie p. 132
Cybertechnology: From Observer to Participant p. 143
Postmodern Flanerie: To Spatialize Temporality p. 147
Passage III: Architecture: Looking Forward, Looking Backward p. 151
The End of Modernity: Where Is Your Rupture? p. 157
The Architectural Model p. 158
The Cinema and Modernity/Modernism: The "Avant-Garde" as a Troubling Third Term p. 162
Jameson and the Cinematic "Postmodern" p. 168
Cinema and Postmodernity p. 174
Postmodernity Without the Word p. 177
Conclusion: Spending Time p. 181
Post-Script: The Fate of Feminism in Postmodernity p. 193
Warnings at the Post p. 193
Postfeminism? p. 194
Beyond Indifference p. 198
Neither or Both: An Epilogue to the Period of the Plural p. 201
Notes p. 203
Index p. 281
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