By Randy Laist
ISBN-10: 1501320033
ISBN-13: 9781501320033
ISBN-10: 1628920793
ISBN-13: 9781628920796
The auteur cinema of the Seventies aimed for gritty realism, and the main well-liked characteristic of Reagan-era cinema used to be its excellent unrealism. Clinton-era cinema, despite the fact that, is characterised through a triumphing temper of hyperrealism, communicated in a variety of methods by way of such benchmark movies as JFK, Pulp Fiction, and The Matrix. The hyperreal cinema of the Nineteen Nineties conceives of the motion picture monitor as neither a window on a preexisting social fact (realism), nor as a wormhole right into a awesome dream-dimension (escapism), yet as an area during which pictures and truth alternate mask, combination into each other, and problem the philosophical premises which differentiate them from each other. Cinema of Simulation: Hyperreal Hollywood within the lengthy Nineties provides a guided travel during the anxieties and fantasies, reciprocally social and cinematic, which represent the surreal territory of the hyperreal.
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