A Cinema Without Walls: Movies and Culture After Vietnam
- ISBN-10
- 0813516684
- ISBN-13
- 9780813516684
- Category
- Performing Arts
- Pages
- 258
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1991
- Publisher
- Rutgers University Press
- Author
- Timothy Corrigan
Description
Corrigan argues that in the past 25 years the increased conglomerization of film production/distribution companies and the rise of VCR, satellite, and cable television technologies have altered the way films are made and how we view them. The result is a growing internationalization of national cinema cultures and an increasing fragmentation of the audience. Video has reduced the movie to private and domestic performance. At the same time, audiences are bombarded with a surfeit of images that leaves them with a battered sense of their place in history and culture. Corrigan notes that, combined with what many critics have recognized as the growing incoherence in film texts, these facts make it more meaningful to discuss films not as texts but as multiple cultural and commercial processes constructed by increasingly specialized audiences. ISBN 0-8135-1667-6: $36.00.
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