Beyond Postmodernism
This chapter presents Jacques Rancière’s theory of art as a convincing response to postmodernism’s claims about the exhaustion of modernist aesthetics and its ultimate subsumption into the field of capitalist spectacle. While emphasising Rancière’s polemi
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Quentin Tarantino and Film Theory
Federico Pagello
Quentin Tarantino and Film Theory Aesthetics and Dialectics in Late Postmodernity
Federico Pagello D’Annunzio University of Chieti–Pescara Chieti, Italy
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Acknowledgements
Many circumstances made the realization of this book quite a long process. The idea first came to me right after my Ph.D. graduation, back in 2009, when I was living in Bologna. It stayed, and grew, with me in Limoges (2011), London (2012) and Nashville (2015–2016), before finally taking shape as a book proposal in Belfast, where I lived between 2013 and 2017. The project eventually became an actual book in Italy, where I unexpectedly returned in 2018—and more precisely in Bologna where it all had started, as well as over many writing sessions in Summit, NJ and my hometown, Vicenza, during the last couple of years. This rather convoluted journey might explain some of its shortcuts, which are otherwise due to my weaknesses. If this work exists, and holds any interest, that is certainly due to the many people, networks and institutions that have stimulated and supported me throughout the last ten years or so. My first thanks of course are for the anonymous reviewers, my editors Lina Aboujieb and Emily Wood, and Palgrave Macmillan, who concretely produced this book, which is not only a matter of ideas but also an actual object (even if you are reading a digital ve
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