Images of Postmodern Society: Social Theory and Contemporary Cinema

by Norman K. Denzin

By using a series of studies of contemporary mainstream Hollywood movies - Blue Velvet, Wall Street, Crimes and Misdemeanors, When Harry Met Sally, sex lies and videotape, Do the Right Thing - Norman K Denzin explores the tension between ideas of the postmodern, and traditional ways of analyzing society. The discussion moves between two forms of social theory and cinematic representations of contemporary life. Denzin analyzes the ideas of society embedded in poststructuralism, postmodernism, feminism, cultural studies and Marxism through the ideas of key theorists (Mills, Baudrillard, Barthes, Habermas, Jameson, Bourdieu, Derrida and others). He relates these ideas to the problematic of the postmodern self as e

192 pages, Paperback

First published August 1, 1991

Reviews

[Derek Baldwin · Rating 1 out of 5]

Dreck. American sociology. I have no other words for this arrogant, pigheaded, very badly written and inaccurate pile of crap. The early theoretical chapters were actually better than the cinematic "case studies" but only because the author has some theoretical grasp of the material, whereas he clearly has no affinity whatsoever for cinema. Staggeringly bad.