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Body Heat
Author: Lawrence Kasdan
Year: 1981 Edit Add
Book: Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism
Body Heat
Author: Lawrence KasdanYear: 1981 Edit Add
Book: Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism
The insensible colonization of the present by the nostalgia mode can be observed in Lawrence
Kasdan elegant film Body Heat, a distant "affluent society" remake of James M. Cain Double
Indemnity, set in a contemporary Florida small town a few hours' drive from Miami. The word
remake is, however, anachronistic to the degree to which our awareness of the preexistence of
other versions (previous films of the novel as well as the novel itself) is now a constitutive and
essential part of the film's structure: we are now, in other words, in "intertextuality" as a deliberate, built-in feature of the aesthetic effect and as the operator of a new connotation of
"pastness" and pseudohistorical depth, in which the history of aesthetic styles displaces "real"
history.
The insensible colonization of the present by the nostalgia mode can be observed in Lawrence
Kasdan elegant film Body Heat, a distant "affluent society" remake of James M. Cain Double
Indemnity, set in a contemporary Florida small town a few hours' drive from Miami. The word
remake is, however, anachronistic to the degree to which our awareness of the preexistence of
other versions (previous films of the novel as well as the novel itself) is now a constitutive and
essential part of the film's structure: we are now, in other words, in "intertextuality" as a deliberate, built-in feature of the aesthetic effect and as the operator of a new connotation of
"pastness" and pseudohistorical depth, in which the history of aesthetic styles displaces "real"
history.
Double Indemnity
Author: James M. Cain
Year: 1943 Edit Add
Book: Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism
Double Indemnity
Author: James M. CainYear: 1943 Edit Add
Book: Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism
The insensible colonization of the present by the nostalgia mode can be observed in Lawrence
Kasdan elegant film Body Heat, a distant "affluent society" remake of James M. Cain Double
Indemnity, set in a contemporary Florida small town a few hours' drive from Miami. The word
remake is, however, anachronistic to the degree to which our awareness of the preexistence of
other versions (previous films of the novel as well as the novel itself) is now a constitutive and
essential part of the film's structure: we are now, in other words, in "intertextuality" as a deliberate, built-in feature of the aesthetic effect and as the operator of a new connotation of
"pastness" and pseudohistorical depth, in which the history of aesthetic styles displaces "real"
history.
The insensible colonization of the present by the nostalgia mode can be observed in Lawrence
Kasdan elegant film Body Heat, a distant "affluent society" remake of James M. Cain Double
Indemnity, set in a contemporary Florida small town a few hours' drive from Miami. The word
remake is, however, anachronistic to the degree to which our awareness of the preexistence of
other versions (previous films of the novel as well as the novel itself) is now a constitutive and
essential part of the film's structure: we are now, in other words, in "intertextuality" as a deliberate, built-in feature of the aesthetic effect and as the operator of a new connotation of
"pastness" and pseudohistorical depth, in which the history of aesthetic styles displaces "real"
history.
Source type: pictureInfo: Cover of Double Indemnity a novel by James M. Cain
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Info: The screenplay for Double Indemnity by Billy Wilder (1944)
Original Url: http://wedoservices.com/screen2/Screenplays/Double%20Indemnity%20[p.%2032].pdf
Edit Toronto Eaton Centre
Author: Eberhard Zeidler - Bregman and Hamann Architects
Year: 1977 Edit Add
Book: Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism
Toronto Eaton Centre
Author: Eberhard Zeidler - Bregman and Hamann ArchitectsYear: 1977 Edit Add
Book: Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism
Yet from the outset a whole battery of aesthetic signs begin to distance the officially
contemporary image from us in time: the art deco scripting of the credits, for example, serves at
once to program the spectator to the appropriate "nostalgia" mode of reception (art deco
quotation has much the same function in contemporary architecture, as in Toronto's remarkable
Eaton Centre).
Yet from the outset a whole battery of aesthetic signs begin to distance the officially
contemporary image from us in time: the art deco scripting of the credits, for example, serves at
once to program the spectator to the appropriate "nostalgia" mode of reception (art deco
quotation has much the same function in contemporary architecture, as in Toronto's remarkable
Eaton Centre).
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