Mirror image: iconicism and reality in late cinema
Keywords:
contemporary film, aesthetic, postmodernity, mass culture, intertextuality, fragmentation, digital image, film theory, realismAbstract
Postmodern mirror-image, as a self-referential structure of representation, finds its roots in pop-art and conceptual art. It has deeply influenced late cinema: intertextuality, appropriationism, mass culture, broken narrative and disintegrated personality. In opposition to this mirror-image cinema, coetaneous films are struggling to restore the conection between image and reality. This paper proposes a reading of contemporary film as a field where debate on representation comes to be staged, while the society of spectacle and digital formats expand across the world.
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