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Bloomsbury Academic, Date: 2015-03-12. Hardcover. Very Good. Hardcover with printed covers. Never read, pages are clean and unmarked. Book shows light shelfwear with both bottom corners bent inward slightly. Bloomsbury Academic ISBN 1628920793 9781628920796 [US]
ISBN10: 1628920793, ISBN13: 9781628920796, [publisher: Bloomsbury Academic] Hardcover Hardcover with printed covers. Never read, pages are clean and unmarked. Book shows light shelfwear with both bottom corners bent inward slightly. [Rochester, NY, U.S.A.] [Publication Year: 2015]
ISBN10: 1628920793, ISBN13: 9781628920796, [publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, New York] Hardcover Hardcover. Hyperreality is an Alice-in-Wonderland dimension where copies have no originals, simulation is more real than reality, and living dreams undermine the barriers between imagination and objective experience. The most prominent philosopher of the hyperreal, Jean Baudrillard, formulated his concept of hyperreality throughout the 1980s, but it was not until the 1990s that the end of the Cold War, along with the proliferation of new reality-bending technologies, made hyperreality seem to come true. In the lost decade between the fall of the Berlin Wall and 9/11, the nature of reality itself became a source of uncertainty, a psychic condition that has been recognizably recorded by that seismograph of American consciousness, Hollywood cinema.The auteur cinema of the 1970s aimed for gritty realism, and the most prominent feature of Reagan-era cinema was its fantastic unrealism. Clinton-era cinema, however, is characterized by a prevailing mood of hyperrealism, communicated in various ways by such benchmark films as JFK, Pulp Fiction, and The Matrix. The hyperreal cinema of the 1990s conceives of the movie screen as neither a window on a preexisting social reality (realism), nor as a wormhole into a fantastic dream-dimension (escapism), but as an arena in which images and reality exchange masks, blend into one another, and challenge the philosophical premises which d ...
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