Window Shopping: Cinema and the Postmodern

by Anne Friedberg

Book Overview

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"...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0520089243
• ISBN13: 9780520089242
• Release Date: August 1994
• Publisher: University of California Press
• Length: 287 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"