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- ISBN 9780791421543
- Weight: 340g
- Publication Date: 15 Dec 1994
- Publisher: State University of New York Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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Explores the way that popular film brings to a "sayable" level that which haunts us in the media headlines.
We are haunted by what we cannot fully identify, by what we cannot make identical to what we already are, have, and know. AIDS is visible, as is the South Central Los Angeles riot/revolt, the dead eyes of Amy Fisher, the pubic hair in Clarence Thomas' Coke, the Branch Davidian Compound shimmering in the distance, and much more. The intensity of all this does not escape the general public. Popular film plugs into this haunting power because it attracts a mass audience. This book is about what haunts the headlines as well as the Big Screen in America during 1990-1992.
Joseph Natoli teaches postmodernism at the Center for Integrative Studies/Arts and Humanities at Michigan State University. He is the editor of Tracing Literary Theory, Literary Theory's Future(s), Psychological Perspectives on Literature: Dissident Freudian and Non-Freudian, and co-editor of A Postmodern Reader (with Linda Hutcheon), published by SUNY Press; author of Mots D'Ordre: Disorder in Literary Worlds, also published by SUNY Press, and Twentieth Century Blake Criticism: Northrop Frye to the Present; and co-author of Psychocriticism.
