Jameson, Fredric.

The ancients and the postmoderns / Frederic Jameson. - 306 p. : ill. ; 25 cm

Includes index.

Our classicism -- Narrative bodies: the case of Rubens -- Wagner as dramatist and allegorist -- Transcendence and movie-music in Mahler -- Late modernism in film -- Angelopoulos and collective narrative -- History and elegy in Sokurov -- Dekalog as decameron -- Adaptation as experiment in the postmodern -- Eurotrash or regieoper? -- Altman and the national-popular -- A global neuromancer -- Realism and utopia in the wire -- The clocks of Dresden -- Counterfactual socialisms -- Dirty little secret.

9781781685938 (hardback : alk. paper)


Modernism (Aesthetics)
Art, Modern.

BH 301 / J31a 2015

700.9