00000cam a22000003i 4500 UP-1685594773862036123 Buklod 20160831122148.0 g||| | || || ta 160831s1991 paua rbo |||1 u|eng d 0877228647 (cl.) (iLib)UPBAG-00021736695 DLC BAG rda eng PN 1994 H63 1991 Hoberman, J. author. Vulgar modernism writing on movies and other media J. Hoberman. Philadelphia Temple University Press 1991. vi, 346 pages illustrations 24 cm Culture and the moving image Includes bibliographical references and index. Mapping a position -- Bad movies -- Three American abstract sensationalists -- Vulgar modernism -- Veni, vidi, video -- Love and death in the American supermarketplace -- Personalities and oeuvres -- The star who fell to earth -- The show biz messiah -- The good, the bad, and the ugly king -- Martin Scorsese and the comedy of public life -- His Parsifal: following the Syberbergenlied -- Tarkovsky arrives -- Ritwik Ghatak: a cloud capped star -- Hou Hsiao-hsien: the edge of the world -- Harold Rosenberg's magic act -- After the gold rush: Chaplin at one hundred -- Vanguards -- The super-80's -- Paik's peak -- Teen angel -- Once upon a time in Amerika: Straub/Huillet/Kafka -- Show time -- What's art got to do with it? -- Ghosts -- The purple rose of Soho -- 'He-e-ere's Jean-ee': TV a la Godard -- Pagan rhapsodies -- As the third world turns -- Avant to hold your hand -- Fear and trembling at the Whitney Biennial -- Bon voyeur: Andy Warhol's silver screen -- Raped and abandoned: Yoko Ono's forgotten masterpiece -- Jacobs' ladder -- Jack Smith, 1932-1989 -- Reviews and appreciations: 1984-1989 -- White boys: Lucas, Spielberg, and the temple of dumb -- All shook up -- Stranger than Paradise -- Double is my business -- The end of science fiction -- Ralph and Alice and Ed and Trixie -- Shoah: the being of nothingness -- Only make believe -- Still Krazy after all these years -- Blue Velvet -- At war with ourselves -- Full Metal Jacket: dressed to kill -- The other, woman -- Written on the Wind -- London burning -- Divided city -- Name that 'toon -- Hal Willner plays Disney: never mind the mouse ears -- Lost in America: Jean Baudrillard, extraterrestrial -- The last western -- Suddenly, last summer -- Street scene -- New York Film Festival: societies of the spectacle -- Brave new image world -- Noh exit -- The worst years of our lives -- Trips -- Two weeks in another town: India and its film festival -- Havana -- Tokyo -- Budapest -- What's stranger than paradise? Or how we stopped worrying and learned to love the 'burbs -- The last picture show. For the past dozen years, J. Hoberman has been publishing witty, impassioned, vivid film criticism in the pages of New York's alternative weekly, The Village Voice. His first collection includes a variety of these (mostly) movie reviews, as well as a number of longer essays and film-festival reports, all written during the 1980s. For Hoberman, film criticism is a form of social commentary, and his articles reflect a decade when an actor was president, the Vietnam War was refought on the nation's movie screens, and soundbites determined elections. The variety of Hoberman's interests and the intellectual depth of his critiques are remarkable. Writing from the perspective of Lower Manhattan, he places movies in the context of the other visual arts--painting, photography, comics, video, and TV--as well as that of postmodern theorists such as Leslie Fiedler and Jean Baudrillard. Demonstrating the widest range of any American film critic writing today, Hoberman is equally at home discussing the work of Steven Spielberg and Andrei Tarkovsky, films by cutting-edge artists Raul Ruiz and Yvonne Rainer, and historical figures as disparate as Charles Chaplin and Andy Warhol. Vulgar Modernism offers an entertaining, trenchant, informed, and informative view of the past decade's popular culture. Motion pictures. Motion pictures Reviews. Popular culture United States. FO UPBAG UPBAG-MAIN PN 1994 H63 1991 Book