Part One: Foundations of a New Film Aesthetic Chapter One: Engaging the Aesthetic Impulse Chapter Two: The Redundancy of Realism Chapter Three: The Transcendence of the Cinematic Image Part Two: Towards a Theory of Popular Culture Chapter Four: Popular Culture as Industry and Commodity Chapter Five: Authenticity and Spectacle Part Three: Text and Spectacle in The Matrix Franchise Chapter Six: Spectacle and The Matrix Phenomenon Chapter Seven: Discursive Text, Intertexuality and The Matrix Franchise Chapter Eight: Conceptualising the Hypermyth - Gorging on the Sacred Past Part Four: The Cinematic Real: Image, Text, Culture Chapter Nine: The Transition From Genre to Genericity Chapter Ten: The Metacinematic Real and the Spectacle Aesthetic Chapter Eleven: Metacinema and Postmodern Narrative: The New Auteurism
Toward a New Film Aesthetic is a radical attempt to connect the study of film with the actual viewing and consumption practices of mainstream cinematic culture.
Bruce Isaacs is a Lecturer in Film Studies at the University of Sydney. He has published widely on film history and theory.
"Isaacs (Univ. of Sydney) contends that post modern narrative
cinema no longer conforms to the hierarchical gradations of high
art, mediocre art, and trash...This is a valuable,
thought-provoking attempt to aestheticize the deployment of prior
cinematic representations. Summing up: Recommended." -J.C.
Tibbetts, CHOICE, December 2008
Unfortunately, despite his avowed intention to make film theory
meaningful for contemporary viewers ("Film theory should be for
people other than theorists"), Isaacs deploys abstruse jargon,
problematic arguments, and frequent allusions to theorists such as
Baudrillard, Lyotard, Eco, et. Al., thus putting the book out of
reach of undergraduates. -J.C. Tibbetts, CHOICE, December 2008
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'Isaacs opens a path to a theory that is rigorous about, and
respectful of, the film.' Parallax, 2009
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