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Disaster and Memory: Celebrity Culture and the Crisis of Hollywood Cinema
Disaster 38 Memory 8211 Celebrity
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paperback. Using the media's coverage of the death of Princess Diana as a departing point, Wheeler Dixon presents a sharply critical assessment of the current state of movies--from the cult of celebrity, to the nature of public surveillance, to the role of print and television media in shaping our shared consciousness--unveiling our fascination with disaster. Num Pages: 220 pages. BIC Classification: APFA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 12. Weight in Grams: 317.
Using the media's coverage of the death of Princess Diana as a departing point, Wheeler Dixon presents a sharply critical assessment of the current state of movies--from the cult of celebrity, to the nature of public surveillance, to the role of print and television media in shaping our shared consciousness--unveiling our fascination with disaster. Dixon argues that movies such as James Cameron's Titanic replay the same Hollywood disaster plotlines with greater wizardry and less humanity than the films of fifty years ago. Contemporary cinema has become simply a memory of itself. Dixon draws on the effects of new technologies, the ... Read more
Using the media's coverage of the death of Princess Diana as a departing point, Wheeler Dixon presents a sharply critical assessment of the current state of movies--from the cult of celebrity, to the nature of public surveillance, to the role of print and television media in shaping our shared consciousness--unveiling our fascination with disaster. Dixon argues that movies such as James Cameron's Titanic replay the same Hollywood disaster plotlines with greater wizardry and less humanity than the films of fifty years ago. Contemporary cinema has become simply a memory of itself. Dixon draws on the effects of new technologies, the ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1999
Publisher
Columbia University Press New York
Number of pages
220
Condition
New
Number of Pages
220
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780231113175
SKU
V9780231113175
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About Disaster 38 Memory 8211 Celebrity
Wheeler Winston Dixon is professor of English at the University of Nebraska, Lincoln, where he is chair of the Film Studies Program. He is the author of The Films of Jean-Luc Godard; The Exploding Eye: A Re-Visionary History of the American Experimental Cinema; and The Transparency of Spectacle.
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