The Crisis of Political Modernism: Criticism and Ideology in Contemporary Film Theory
Author(s): D. N. Rodowick (Author)
- Publisher: University of Illinois Press
- Publication Date: September 1, 1988
- Language: English
- Print length: 311 pages
- ISBN-10: 0252015339
- ISBN-13: 9780252015335
Book Description
D. N. Rodowick offers a critical analysis of the development of film theory since 1968. Discussing the influence of Althusser, Derrida, Foucault, and others on current ideas in cinema studies, he shows how debates concerning the principle trends of literary modernism–semiotics, structuralism, psychoanalysis, Marxism, and feminism–have transformed film theory.