A Postmodern Love Affair: Los Angeles and Neo-Noir

A Postmodern Love Affair: Los Angeles and Neo-Noir

This paper aims to investigate how film neo-noir functions as an ideal medium to engage in a postmodernist critique of our society, focusing on its negotiation in the city of Los Angeles. Through incorporating postmodernism theorists Fredric Jameson and Linda Hutcheon’s arguments of the themes of th...

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Main Author: Loh, Shinmin Amanda
Format: Others
Published: Scholarship @ Claremont 2017
Subjects:
Neo-Noir
Los Angeles
Postmodernism
Other Film and Media Studies
Online Access:http://scholarship.claremont.edu/scripps_theses/931
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spelling ndltd-CLAREMONT-oai-scholarship.claremont.edu-scripps_theses-19772017-01-25T03:44:41Z A Postmodern Love Affair: Los Angeles and Neo-Noir Loh, Shinmin Amanda This paper aims to investigate how film neo-noir functions as an ideal medium to engage in a postmodernist critique of our society, focusing on its negotiation in the city of Los Angeles. Through incorporating postmodernism theorists Fredric Jameson and Linda Hutcheon’s arguments of the themes of the Nostalgia Mode, Parody and Pastiche, and the Decentered, Destructured and Dehumanized, this paper will demonstrate how they manifest in neo-noir’s Los Angeles to totalize contradictions in society and evoke a critical awareness. 2017-01-01T08:00:00Z text application/pdf http://scholarship.claremont.edu/scripps_theses/931 http://scholarship.claremont.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1977&context=scripps_theses © 2016 Shinmin A. Loh default Scripps Senior Theses Scholarship @ Claremont Neo-Noir Los Angeles Postmodernism Other Film and Media Studies
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topic Neo-Noir
Los Angeles
Postmodernism
Other Film and Media Studies
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Los Angeles
Postmodernism
Other Film and Media Studies
Loh, Shinmin Amanda
A Postmodern Love Affair: Los Angeles and Neo-Noir
description This paper aims to investigate how film neo-noir functions as an ideal medium to engage in a postmodernist critique of our society, focusing on its negotiation in the city of Los Angeles. Through incorporating postmodernism theorists Fredric Jameson and Linda Hutcheon’s arguments of the themes of the Nostalgia Mode, Parody and Pastiche, and the Decentered, Destructured and Dehumanized, this paper will demonstrate how they manifest in neo-noir’s Los Angeles to totalize contradictions in society and evoke a critical awareness.
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title A Postmodern Love Affair: Los Angeles and Neo-Noir
title_short A Postmodern Love Affair: Los Angeles and Neo-Noir
title_full A Postmodern Love Affair: Los Angeles and Neo-Noir
title_fullStr A Postmodern Love Affair: Los Angeles and Neo-Noir
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