Aftershocks of the New: Feminism and Film History

by Patrice Petro

Book Overview

The beginning of this century has brought with it a host of assumptions about the newness of our technologies, globalized economies, and transnational media practices. Our own time is a period marked by experiences of fragmentation, sensation, and shock. The essays here are joined by a common concern to chart another side to modernity--precisely after the shock of the new--when the new ceases to be shocking, and when the extraordinary and the sensational...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0813529964
• ISBN13: 9780813529967
• Release Date: January 2002
• Publisher: Rutgers University Press
• Length: 232 Pages
• Weight: 0.84 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.2"