Memory's Orbit
Film and Culture 1999-2000
Published on 27. March 2003
Book
Paperback/Softback
242 pages
978-0-7914-5720-7 (ISBN)
Description
Memoir meets cultural criticism in this examination of American popular culture at the end of the century.
Mixing memoir and cultural criticism, Memory's Orbit examines the intersections between a wide range of films and current events, finding its theme and orbiting narrative structure in the personal stories we live within and their relationship to the social and cultural order. Joseph Natoli covers such films as The Matrix, American Beauty, Fight Club, Eyes Wide Shut, and American History X, as well as such headline events as the death of John F. Kennedy Jr., the dot-com boom, the WTO protests in Seattle, and Bush versus Gore, consistently identifying those aspects of the social order that have shaped his narrating frame. Eschewing theoretical exposition and jargon, Natoli performs postmodern critique, and this book continues his innovative work in the genre of cultural studies.
Mixing memoir and cultural criticism, Memory's Orbit examines the intersections between a wide range of films and current events, finding its theme and orbiting narrative structure in the personal stories we live within and their relationship to the social and cultural order. Joseph Natoli covers such films as The Matrix, American Beauty, Fight Club, Eyes Wide Shut, and American History X, as well as such headline events as the death of John F. Kennedy Jr., the dot-com boom, the WTO protests in Seattle, and Bush versus Gore, consistently identifying those aspects of the social order that have shaped his narrating frame. Eschewing theoretical exposition and jargon, Natoli performs postmodern critique, and this book continues his innovative work in the genre of cultural studies.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Albany, NY
United States
Target group
US School Grade: College Graduate Student and over
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Paperback (trade)
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Height: 233 mm
Width: 153 mm
Thickness: 13 mm
Weight
331 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-7914-5720-7 (9780791457207)
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Joseph Natoli teaches postmodernism and cultural studies at the Center for Integrative Studies/Arts and Humanities, Michigan State University. He is the author or editor of many books, including A Postmodern Reader and Postmodern Journeys: Film and Culture 1996-1998, both published by SUNY Press.
Content
After September 11, 2001
Oxley Holl'r, West Virginia, April 1976
Martha's Vineyard, July 17, 1999
Brooklyn, November 22, 1963
Inside the Matrix, January 3, 2000
Oxley Holl'r, West Virginia, Fall 1975
St. Alban's Naval Hospital, 1966
Outer-Six Theatre, August 1999
Oxley Holl'r, West Virginia, Winter 1977
Staten Island, New York, March 1999
Sleepy Hollow, New York, December 31, 1999
Moriarity's Pub, Fall 1999
On the Set of Oprah, Jerry, Martha and Tony, Spring 1999
Robin Wood Trail, Winter 1999
Time Codes: Brooklyn Heights, Henniker, Bluefield, Irvine, April 2000
New Hampshire, February 2000
Goshen, Indiana, February 4, 2000
The Boiler Room, February 2000
East Lansing, Michigan, March 2000
Oxley Holl'r, West Virginia, Summer 1975
Eden, August 2000
Not Seattle, November 1999
Elsinore Castle, November 7, 2000
In the Ring, October 1999
Brooklyn, Thanksgiving 1953
Orbiting in a Time Machine, October 1, 2000
Long Island, July 1999
Halls of Valhalla, 1999
Leiden, The Netherlands, Spring 1999
Re-orbiting, 1975
Index
Oxley Holl'r, West Virginia, April 1976
Martha's Vineyard, July 17, 1999
Brooklyn, November 22, 1963
Inside the Matrix, January 3, 2000
Oxley Holl'r, West Virginia, Fall 1975
St. Alban's Naval Hospital, 1966
Outer-Six Theatre, August 1999
Oxley Holl'r, West Virginia, Winter 1977
Staten Island, New York, March 1999
Sleepy Hollow, New York, December 31, 1999
Moriarity's Pub, Fall 1999
On the Set of Oprah, Jerry, Martha and Tony, Spring 1999
Robin Wood Trail, Winter 1999
Time Codes: Brooklyn Heights, Henniker, Bluefield, Irvine, April 2000
New Hampshire, February 2000
Goshen, Indiana, February 4, 2000
The Boiler Room, February 2000
East Lansing, Michigan, March 2000
Oxley Holl'r, West Virginia, Summer 1975
Eden, August 2000
Not Seattle, November 1999
Elsinore Castle, November 7, 2000
In the Ring, October 1999
Brooklyn, Thanksgiving 1953
Orbiting in a Time Machine, October 1, 2000
Long Island, July 1999
Halls of Valhalla, 1999
Leiden, The Netherlands, Spring 1999
Re-orbiting, 1975
Index