Postmodern Cinema

Mary Alemany-Galway teaches Media Studies at Massey University in New Zealand. Previously she taught Film Studies in Canada at Concordia University and Queen's University. She is the co-editor of Peter Greenaway's Postmodern/Poststructuralist Cinema (Scarecrow Press, 2001).

• Chapter 1 1. Toward a Postmodern Film TheoryChapter 2 2. The Importance of Eisenstein's Theories to PostmodernismChapter 3 3. Bazin: Phenomenology and PostmodernismChapter 4 4. Metz: Structuralist Film Theory in the Light of PoststructuralismChapter 5 5. The Turning Point to Postmodernism: The New Novel and Last Year at MarienbadChapter 6 6. Canadian Film History and Canadian Identity: Realism, Modernism, and PostmodernismChapter 7 7. Jesus of MontrealChapter 8 8. I've Heard the Mermaids SingingChapter 9 9. Family ViewingChapter 10 10. Life ClassesChapter 11 11. Conclusion

...[has] much to offer...[raises] important questions about theorizing the spectator in the context of a national cinema at a time when the spread of multiculturalism and globalization is placing enormous pressure on traditional ideas of national identity.