Signatures of the Visible

Fredric JamesonSignatures of the VisibleWith an introduction by the author''Jameson aptly demonstrates why he remains among the most significant literary theorists of the late twentieth century." Philosophy and LiteratureIn such celebrated works as Postmodernism: The Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism, Fredric Jameson has established himself as one of America's most sharp-eyed cultural commentators. In Signatures of the Visible Jameson turnshis attention to the cinema: the artform that has replaced the novel as the defining cultural form of our time.Historicizing a form that has flourished in a postmodern and anti-historical culture, he explores the allegorical and ideological dimensions of such films as The Shining, Dog Day Afternoon and the works of Alfred Hitchcock, among many others. Fifteen years on from its original publication, this remains a piercing and original analysis of film from a writer and thinker whose influence continues to be felt long after that of the fashionable postmodernists he has always critiqued.Fredric Jameson (1934'¬" ) is one of the most respected cultural critics working in America today and one of postmodernism's most savage critics. Currently William A. Lane Professor of Comparative Literature and Romance Studies at Duke University, he is the author of The Political Unconscious.Film Studies/Critical TheoryJameson, Fredri is the author of 'Signatures of the Visible ', published 2007 under ISBN 9780415771610 and ISBN 0415771617.