The following posting from POSTMODERN CULTURE, the on-line journal,
lists many 1990-91 books dealing with postmodernism. Several of
these releases deal with film and/or TV.
I bounce this over to SCREEN-L asa way of inaugurating a general
discussion of postmodernism--if, indeed, the list is interested.
And to start things off in the most general way possible I'll pose
this question: Have SCREEN-L subscribers found "postmodernism" a
useful concept for their work in teaching, theorizing or studying
film and/or television?
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_Postmodern Culture_: Call for Book Reviews
(April 2, 1991)
If you would like to propose a review of one or more of the books
listed below, please send a note to Elaine Orr, book-review
editor, at ENOEG@NCSUVM (Bitnet) or [log in to unmask]
(Internet) explaining your qualifications and experience in the
subject area. If you would like to propose a review of a book
which does not appear below, please follow the same procedure.
Book reviews of 1,000 to 3,000 words in length are published as a
regular feature in each issue of _Postmodern Culture_. The next
issue will appear at the end of May, 1991.
Recent Publications:
Agger, Ben. _The decline of discourse: reading, writing, and
resistance in postmodern capitalism_. New York: Falmer Press,
1990.
Boyne, Roy and Ali Rattansi eds. _Postmodernism and society_.
New York: St. Martin's, 1990.
Brater, Enoch, and Ruby Cohn, eds. _Around the Absurd: Essays
on Modern and Postmodern Drama_. Ann Arbor: U of Michigan P,
1990.
Callinicos, Alex. _Against postmodernism: a Marxist critique_.
New York: St. Martin's, 1990.
Carty, Anthony, ed. _Post-modern law: enlightenment, revolution
and the death of man_. Edinburgh: Edinburgh UP, 1990.
Caughie, Pamela. _Virginia Woolf and Postmodernism: Literature
in Quest and Question of Itself_. Champaign: U of Illinois P,
April 1991.
Chambers, Iain. _Border dialogues: journeys in postmodernity_.
New York: Routledge, 1990.
Chow, Rey. _Woman and Chinese Modernity: The Politics of
Reading Between West and East_. Minneapolis: U of Minnesota P,
1990.
Cooke, Philip N. _Back to the future_. Boston: Unwin Hyman,
1990.
Docherty, Thomas. _After theory: postmodernism/postmarxism_.
New York: Routledge, 1990.
Eagleton, Terry, Frederick Jameson, and Edward W. Said.
_Nationalism, Colonialism, and Literature_. Minneapolis: U of
Minnesota P, 1990.
Erickson, Glenn W. _Negative dialectics and the end of
philosophy_. Wolfeboro, N.H.: Longwood Academic, 1990.
Ferguson, Russell, ed. _Discourses: conversations in postmodern
art and culture_. New York: New Museum of Contemporary Art;
Cambridge, Mass.: MIT, 1990.
Flax, Jane. _Thinking Fragments: Psychoanalysis, Feminism, and
Postmodernism in the Contemporary West_. Berkeley: U of
California P, 1990.
Freedman, Barbara. _Staging the Gaze: Postmodernism,
Psychoanalysis, and Shakespearean Comedy_. Ithaca: Cornell UP,
1991.
Giddens, Anthony. _The consequences of modernity_. Stanford:
Stanford University Press, 1990.
Gilmour, John. _Fire on the earth: Anselm Kiefer and the
postmodern world_. Philadelphia: Temple UP, 1990.
Goldberg, David, ed. _Anatomy of Racism_. Minneapolis: U of
Minnesota P, 1990.
Griffin, David Ray, ed. _Sacred interconnections: postmodern
spirituality, political economy, and art_. Albany: SUNY, 1990.
Harraway, Donna J. _Simians, Cyborgs, and Women: The
Reinvention of Nature_. New York: Routledge, April 1991.
Hekman, Susan J. _Gender and knowledge: elements of a postmodern
feminism_. Boston: Northeastern UP, 1990.
Hoesterey, Ingeborg ed. _Zeitgeist in Babel: the postmodernist
controversy_. Bloomington: Indiana UP, 1991.
Koelb, Clayton, ed. _Nietzsche as postmodernist: essays pro and
contra_. Albany: SUNY, 1990.
Kolb, David. _Postmodern sophistications: philosophy,
architecture, and tradition_. Chicago: U of Chicago P, 1990.
Kolenda, Konstantin. _Rorty's humanistic pragmatism: philosophy
democratized_. Tampa: U of South Florida P, 1990.
Kreiswirth, Martin, and Mark A. Cheetham, eds. _Theory Between
the Disciplines: Authority/Vision/Politics_. Ann Arbor: U
Michigan P, 1990.
Lash, Scott. _The Sociology of Postmodernism_. New York:
Routledge, 1990.
Martin, Randy. _Performance as political act: the embodied
self_. New York: Bergin & Garvey, 1990.
McGowan, John. _Postmodernism and Its Critics_. Ithaca:
Cornell UP, April 1991.
The Milan Women's Bookstore Collective. _Sexual Difference: A
Theory of Social-Symbolic Practice_. Bloomington: Indiana UP,
1990.
Milner, Andrew, Philip Thomson and Chris Worth, eds. _Postmodern
conditions_. New York: St. Martin's, 1990.
Murray, David, ed. _Forked Tongues: Speech, Writing, and
Representation in North American Indian Texts_. Bloomington:
Indiana UP, May 1991.
Nicholson, Linda J., ed. _Feminism/postmodernism_. New York:
Routledge, 1990.
Nielsen, Kai. _Search for community in a withering tradition:
conversations between a Marxian atheist and a Calvinian
Christian_. Lanham: UP of America, 1990.
Norris, Christopher. _What's Wrong with Postmodernism: Critical
Theory and the Ends of Philosophy_. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins
UP, November 1991.
Olson, Alan M., Christopher Parr, and Debra Parr, eds. _Video
Icons & Values_. Albany: State U of New York P, (no date on
brochure).
Pearson, Roberta E., and William Uricchio, eds. _The Many Lives
of Batman: Critical Approaches to a Superhero and his Media_.
New York: Routledge, 1990.
Pefanis, Julian. _Heterology and the postmodern: Bataille,
Baudrillard, and Lyotard_. Durham: Duke UP, 1991.
Penley, Constance, Elisabeth Lyon, Lynn Spigel, and Janet
Bergstrom, eds. _Close Encounters: Film, Feminism, and Science
Fiction_. Minneapolis: U of Minnesota P, January 1991.
Penley, Constance, and Andrew Ross, eds. _Technoculture_.
Minneapolis: U of Minnesota P, May 1991.
Rickels, Laurence A. _The Case of California_. Baltimore:
Johns Hopkins UP, May 1991.
Risatti, Howard. ed. _Postmodern perspectives: issues in
contemporary art_. Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice Hall, 1990.
Schleifer, Ronald. _Rhetoric and Death: The Language of
Modernism and Postmodern Discourse Theory_. Champaign: U of
Illinois P, 1990.
Shapiro, Gary, ed. _After the future: postmodern times and
places_. Albany: SUNY, 1990.
Silverman, Hugh J., ed. _Postmodernism: philosophy and the arts_.
New York: Routledge, 1990.
Spilka, Mark and Caroline McCracken-Flesher, eds. _Why the novel
matters: a postmodern perplex_. Bloomington: Indiana UP, 1990.
Stratton, Jon. _Writing Sites: A Genealogy of the Postmodern
World_. Ann Arbor: U Michigan P, 1990.
Varsava, Jerry A. _Contingent Meanings: Postmodern Fiction,
Mimesis, and the Reader_. Gainesville: Florida State UP, 1990.
Wakefield, Neville. _Postmodernism: the twilight of the real_.
Winchester, Mass.: Pluto, 1990.
Wurzer, Wilhelm S. _Filming and judgment: between Heidegger and
Adorno_. Atlantic Highlands, N.J.: Humanities Press
International, 1990.
Wyschogrod, Edith. _Saints and Postmodernism: Revisioning Moral
Philosophy_. Chicago: U of Chicago P, 1990.
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