Recycled Culture in Contemporary Art and Film: The Uses of Nostalgia

by Vera Dika

Overview

Vera Dika explores the reuse of images, plots and genres of film history from a broad range of critical perspectives. Examining works of art and film that resist the pull of the past, Dika provides an in-depth analysis within a variety of media, including performance, photography, Punk film, and examples from mainstream American and European cinema. Her study analyzes avant-garde art work within the context of contemporary mainstream film practice, as well as in relationship to their historical moment.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780521815680
Publisher:	Cambridge University Press
Publication date:	06/09/2003
Series:	Cambridge Studies in Film
Pages:	254
Product dimensions:	6.26(w) x 9.25(h) x 0.83(d)

Table of Contents

1. The returned image; 2. Art and film: New York City in the late 1970s: Jack Goldstein, Robert Longo, Cindy Sherman, Amos Poe; 3. Generic returns - the dream has ended: Badlands, Texas Chainsaw Massacre, The Shootist, The Last Waltz; 4. Re-considering the nostalgia film: American Graffiti, The Conformist, Rocky Horror Picture Show; 5. A return to the 1950s - the dangers in Utopia: Grease, Last Exit to Brooklyn; 6. Coppola and Scorsese - authorial views: Apocalypse Now, One From the Heart, The Last Temptation of Christ; 7. To destroy the sign: Gus Van Sant's Psycho, Geronimo, JFK.