Acknowledgements
Introduction
Chapter One: An Aesthetic of the Commons
The Aesthetic Commons
From Columbus to Indigenous Media
First Peoples, First Features
The Storytelling Commons
Revisionist Adaptation and the Literary Commons
Cultural Indigenization
The Archival Commons and the Ab-original Musical
Chapter Two: The Upside Down World of the Carnivalesque
The People’s Second Life
Sacred Parody
Festive-Revolutionary Practices
Unruly Women
Polymorphous Celebrations
Stand-up Comedy and Nuclear Catastrophe
Contemporary Fools
Pedagogic Provocations
Tropes of Inversion
Offside Cinema
Chapter Three: Political Modernism and its Discontents
The Two Avant-Gardes
The Brechtian Legacy
Beyond Brecht
The Affective-Corporeal Turn
The Rediscovery of Pleasure
The Legacy of the V-Effect
Political Cinema in the Age of the Posts
Chapter Four: The Transmogrification of the Negative
An Aesthetic of Mistakes
Third Cinema: From Hunger to Garbage
Sublime Detritus
The Recombinant Sublime
Anthropophagic Modernism
Situationist Detournement
Culture Jamming
Neo-Situationism and the Aesthetics of Failure
Media Jiujitsu
The New Kino-Eye: Vision Machines
Chapter Five: Hybrid Variations on a Documentary Theme
The Fiction-Documentary Continuum
Murderous Reenactments
The Mediatic Spectrum
From Representation to Self-Presentation
The Strategic Advantages of Hybridization
Performative Films
The Essay Film and Mockumentaries
Chapter Six: Hollywood Aristotelianism, the Fractured Chronotope, and the Musicalization of Cinema
Hollywood Aristotelianism: the Orthodox Chronotope
Alternatives to Aristotle: the Menippean Strain
Pop Culture Anachronism and the Chronotope of the Road
Baroque Modernism and the Marvelous American Real
Trance-Modernism
Contrapuntal Variations
Transformative Becomings
The Shape-Shiftings of Popular Culture
Metaphysical Cine-Poetry
Chapter Seven: Aesthetic/Political Innovation in the Digital Age
The Interface Effect
Beyond Accelerationism: Digital Montage and Duration
Interactivity and Digital Détournement
IRL Subversions: Tactical Media/Digital Materialism
In Guise of a Conclusion
Index of Terms
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Keywords in Subversive Film/Media Aesthetics by Robert Stam. ISBN 9781118340592. Published by Wiley Blackwell in 2015. Publication and catalogue information, links to buy online and reader comments.
