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Informationen zum Autor Anne Friedberg i is the Professor and Chair of Critical Studies at the University of Southern California School of Cinematic Arts. Klappentext "Friedberg's idea of the 'mobilized virtual gaze' may become the way we conceive of postmodern subjectivity. This book is in a class by itself."Linda Hutcheon, author of The Politics of Postmodernism Zusammenfassung This account of the cinema's role in postmodern culture explores the way in which 19th-century visual experiences, such as photography and diorama entertainments, anticipated contemporary pleasures provided by film. Inhaltsverzeichnis PREFACE ACKNOWLEDGMENTS INTRODUCTION LOOKING BACKWARD-AN INTRODUCTION TO THE CONCEPT OF "POST" The Past, the Present, the Virtual Method The "P" Word A Road Map 1 THE MOBILIZED AND VIRTUAL GAZE IN MODERNITY: FLANEURIFLANEUSE Modernity and the "Panoptic" Gaze Modernity and the "Virtual" Gaze The Baudelairean Observer: The "Mobilized" Gaze of the Flaneur The Gender of the Observer: The Flaneuse The "Mobilized" and "Virtual" Gaze PASSAGE I The Ladies' Paradise by Emile Zola 2 THE PASSAGE FROM ARCADE TO CINEMA The Commodity-Experience RE: Construction-The Public Interior/The Private Exterior The Mobilized Gaze: T award the Virtual From the Arcade to the Cinema PASSAGE II A Short Film Is More of a ''Rest Cure'' The Cinema as Time Machine Window-Shopping Through Time 3 LES Fi.ANEURS/FLANEUSE DU MALL The Mall Temporality and Cinema Spectatorship Spectatorial Flanerie Cybertechnology: From Observer to Participant Postmodern Flanerie: To Spatialize Temporality PASSAGE Ill Architecture: Looking Foward, Looking Backward 4 THE END OF MODERNITY: WHERE IS YOUR RUPTURE? The Architectural Model The Cinema and Modernity/Modernism: The "Avant-Garde" as a Troubling Third Term Jameson and the Cinematic "Postmodern" Cinema and Postmodernity Postmodernity Without the Word CONCLUSION: SPENDING TIME POST-SCRIPT: THE FATE OF FEMINISM IN POSTMODERNITY Warnings at the Post Postfeminism? Beyond Indifference Neither or Both: An Epilogue to the Period of the Plural NOTES INDEX...

Auteur
Anne Friedberg i is the Professor and Chair of Critical Studies at the
University of Southern California School of Cinematic Arts.

Texte du rabat
"Friedberg's idea of the 'mobilized virtual gaze' may become the way we conceive of postmodern subjectivity. This book is in a class by itself."Linda Hutcheon, author of *The Politics of Postmodernism

Résumé
This account of the cinema's role in postmodern culture explores the way in which 19th-century visual experiences, such as photography and diorama entertainments, anticipated contemporary pleasures provided by film.

Contenu
PREFACE
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

INTRODUCTION LOOKING BACKWARD-AN INTRODUCTION
TO THE CONCEPT OF "POST"
The Past, the Present, the Virtual
Method
The "P" Word
A Road Map

1 THE MOBILIZED AND VIRTUAL GAZE IN MODERNITY:
FLANEURIFLANEUSE
Modernity and the "Panoptic" Gaze
Modernity and the "Virtual" Gaze
The Baudelairean Observer:
The "Mobilized" Gaze of the Flaneur
The Gender of the Observer: The Flaneuse
The "Mobilized" and "Virtual" Gaze
PASSAGE I The Ladies' Paradise by Emile Zola

2 THE PASSAGE FROM ARCADE TO CINEMA
The Commodity-Experience
RE: Construction-The Public Interior/The Private Exterior
The Mobilized Gaze: T award the Virtual
From the Arcade to the Cinema
PASSAGE II A Short Film Is More of a ''Rest Cure''
The Cinema as Time Machine
Window-Shopping Through Time

3 LES Fi.ANEURS/FLANEUSE DU MALL
The Mall
Temporality and Cinema Spectatorship
Spectatorial Flanerie
Cybertechnology: From Observer to Participant
Postmodern Flanerie: To Spatialize Temporality
PASSAGE Ill Architecture: Looking Foward, Looking Backward

4 THE END OF MODERNITY: WHERE IS YOUR RUPTURE?
The Architectural Model
The Cinema and Modernity/Modernism:
The "Avant-Garde" as a Troubling Third Term
Jameson and the Cinematic "Postmodern"
Cinema and Postmodernity
Postmodernity Without the Word

CONCLUSION: SPENDING TIME

POST-SCRIPT: THE FATE OF FEMINISM IN POSTMODERNITY
Warnings at the Post
Postfeminism?
Beyond Indifference
Neither or Both: An Epilogue to the Period of the Plural

NOTES
INDEX