Recycled culture in contemporary art and film : the uses of nostalgia / Vera Dika.

The reuse of past images, plots, and genres from film history has become a prominent feature of contemporary culture. Vera Dika explores this practice 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 of...

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Main Author: Dika, Vera, 1951-
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, ©2003.
Series:Cambridge studies in film.
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Table of Contents:
  • The returned image
  • Art and film : New York City in the late 1970s
  • Returned genres : the dream has ended
  • Reconsidering the nostalgia film
  • A return to the 1950s : the dangers in utopia
  • Coppola and Scorsese : authorial views
  • To destroy the sign.