Natoli, Joseph P., 1943-

Hauntings : popular film and American culture, 1990-1992 / Joseph Natoli. - Albany : State University of New York Press, �1994. - 1 online resource (xi, 238 pages). - SUNY series in postmodern culture . - SUNY series in postmodern culture. .

Includes bibliographical references (pages 227-238).

TABLE OF CONTENTS -- Basic and postmodern instincts: the new popular realism in film -- Hunting the haunted heart -- Moving laterally across the capes of fear -- Rebels and rioters with unsayable causes -- Home alone watching the Rodney King tape, or, having Jeffrey Dahmer over for dinner -- Rocking the cradle of family values -- Free market or free play -- Intermezzo: between film and culture -- The free play of popular film -- Geckoid democracy and the garfieldian American dream -- The unforgiven: histories and Indians -- Robbin' N the hood the nabe -- Guns and provolone: winding and wiseguys doing the wrong thing -- After Bob Roberts: was this a postmodern presidential campaign -- The final dance around the planet: green space versus self space.


English.

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Motion pictures--Political aspects--United States.
Motion pictures--Social aspects--United States.
SOCIAL SCIENCE--Media Studies.
Motion pictures--Political aspects.
Motion pictures--Social aspects.
Film.
Music, Dance, Drama & Film.


United States.


Electronic books.
Electronic books.
Electronic books.

PN1995.9.P6 / N37 1994eb

302.23/43/0973