Signatures of the Visible

In such celebrated works as Postmodernism The Cultural Logic of LateCapitalism Fredric Jameson has established himself as one of Americas mostobservant cultural... » 

In such celebrated works as Postmodernism The Cultural Logic of LateCapitalism Fredric Jameson has established himself as one of Americas mostobservant cultural commentators. In Signatures of the Visible Jameson turnshis attention to cinema the artform that has replaced the novel as thedefining cultural form of our time. Historicizing a form that has flourished ina postmodern and antihistorical culture he explores the allegorical andideological dimensions of such films as The Shining Dog Day Afternoon and theworks of Alfred Hitchcock among many others.Fifteen years on from its original publication this remains a piercing andoriginal analysis of film from a writer and thinker whose influence continuesto be felt long after that of the fashionable postmodernists he has alwayscritiqued. «