Cinema and Modernity

* This is a controversial study of the development of the modern cinema which analyses film as a distinctive social and cultural form.
* The book rejects current post-structuralist theories of the cinema and also criticises the concept of postmodernity as a means of exploring developments in cinema.
* Instead the author draws on the classical works of Nietzsche, Freud and Sartre especially their writings on self and modernity, as well as the more contemporary writings of Deleuze.
* Orr examines textual readings of film in relation to current theories in philosophy, aesthetics and history.
* This is a controversial study of the development of the modern cinema which analyses film as a distinctive social and cultural form.
* The book rejects current post-structuralist theories of the cinema and also criticises the concept of postmodernity as a means of exploring developments in cinema.
* Instead the author draws on the classical works of Nietzsche, Freud and Sartre especially their writings on self and modernity, as well as the more contemporary writings of Deleuze.
* Orr examines textual readings of film in relation to current theories in philosophy, aesthetics and history.