Résumé : Une étude comparative des représentations de genre dans les films musicaux et les mélodrames de V. Minnelli et de J. Demy, au prisme de l'esthétique camp. Dans une époque marquée par la guerre froide, la décolonisation, la société de consommation et les mouvements féministes, ils proposent des modèles de masculinités alternatives fondés sur des valeurs inclusives. ©Electre 2023

Résumé : Un ouvrage consacré au camp, une esthétique et un parti pris artistique qui, au cinéma, s'est incarné dans des réalisations grotesques, kitsch et outrancières parmi lesquelles figurent les oeuvres de Mel Brooks, Joseph Losey ou Ken Russell. Les comédies et les films musicaux sont abordés dans ce deuxième volume. ©Electre 2022

Résumé : Le traitement subversif et contestataire de la sexualité, des normes, d'Hollywood et de ses marges est abordé dans ce dernier volume sur le camp. L'auteur s'intéresse aux mélodrames outrés d'Edward Dmytryk, aux divas comme Liz Taylor et Lana Turner, ainsi qu'aux soap operas adolescents de Delmer Daves. L'avant-garde et le porno gay sont présentés à travers des auteurs anarchistes comme Jack Smith. ©Electre 2023

Résumé : Un ouvrage consacré au camp, une esthétique et un parti pris artistique qui, au cinéma, s'est incarné dans des réalisations grotesques, kitsch et outrancières parmi lesquelles figurent les oeuvres de Vincent Price, Joan Crawford, Baby Jane, Andy Milligan ou encore Doris Wishman. Le mélodrame gériatrique, le cinéma d'épouvante et le cinéma d'exploitation sont abordés dans ce premier tome. ©Electre 2021

Résumé : Sommaire : Postmodernism : style and subversion / Glenn Adamson and Jane Pavitt -- Arch-art : architecture as subject matter / James Wines -- Our postmodernism / Denise Scott Brown -- On bricolage / Victor Buchli -- Kitsch and postmodern architecture : Charles Moore's Piazza d'Italia / Patricia A. Morton -- Irony and postmodern architecture / Emmanuel Petit -- Civitas Interruptus / Thomas Weaver -- The presence of the past : postmodernism meets in Venice / Léa-Catherine Szacka -- The architect as ghost-writer : Rem Koolhaas and image-based urbanism / Martino Stierli -- Paper architecture : the Columbaria of Brodsky and Utkin / David Crowley -- Photography into building : the Smithsons and James Stirlin / Claire Zimmerman -- Postmodern angel : Shiro Kuramata / Paola Antonelli -- We are all in the gutter : retailing postmodern fashion / Claire Wilcox -- Making Memphis : 'glue culture' and postmodern production strategies / Catharine Rossi -- The uses of 'notes on camp' / Christopher Breward -- Tomorrow's been cancelled due to lack of interest : Derek Jarman's The Last of England / Oliver Winchester -- Unsettled images : from TV screen to video-wall and back again / Mari Dumett -- Sampling and the materiality of sound / Ulrich Lehmann -- Buffalo : style with intent / Carol Tulloch -- Dressing viciously : hip-hop music, fashion and cultural crossover / Zoe Whitley -- What is 'post' about global hip-hop? / Sujatha Fernandes -- Klaus Nomi : astral countervoice of the new wave / Susanne K. Frantz -- Threads and rays : accessorizing Michael Clark / Matthew Hawkins -- Embraced by the (spot)light : Ōno Kazuo, Butō and Admiring La Argentina / Bruce Baird -- Fashion, violence and hyperreality / Rebecca Arnold -- Big magazines : design as the message / Rick Poynor -- Between words and images : simulation, deconstruction and postmodern photography / Paul Jobling -- David McDiarmid, Peter Tully and the ecstatic space of the paradise garage / Sally Gray -- Michael Graves and the figurative impulse / Christopher Wilk -- Riding the wave of Reaganomics : Swid Powell and the celebrity architects / Elizabeth A. Fleming -- Margaret Thatcher, postmodernism and the politics of design in Britain / Jonathan M. Woodham -- A way of looking at things / April Greiman -- Always already postmodern? Japanese design and architecture in the 1980s / Sarah Teasley -- Coming up for air : 1980s Spanish style cultures / Viviana Narotzky -- Furniture out of its mind : Düsseldorf, 1986 -- True stories : a film about people like us / Rick Poynor -- Abstract figural systems / Reinhold Martin -- No Duchamps in Delhi / Arindam Dutta -- Post-modernism comes of age / Charles Jenks -- The end of style? / Paul Greenhalgh -- Post-script / David Byrne.

Résumé : In Flintstone Modernism, Jeffrey Lieber investigates transformations in postwar American architecture and culture. He considers sword-and-sandal films of the 1950s and 1960s and their protean, ideologically charged representations of totalitarianism and democracy. He connects Cinemascope and other widescreen technologies to the architectural “glass curtain wall,” arguing that both represented the all-encompassing eye of American Enterprise. Lieber reminds us that until recently midcentury modern American architecture was reviled by architectural historians but celebrated by design enthusiasts, just as sword-and-sandal epics are alternately hailed as cult classics or derided as camp.Lieber's argument is absorbing, exuberant, and comprehensive. Following Hannah Arendt, who looked for analogies in the classical past in order to understand midcentury's cultural crisis, Lieber terms the postwar reckoning of ancient civilizations and modern ideals “Flintstone modernism.” In new assessments of the major architects of the period, Lieber uncovers the cultural and political fantasies that animated or impinged on their work, offering surprising insights into Gordon Bunshaft's commonsense classicism; Eero Saarinen's architectural narratives of ersatz empire and Marcel Breuer's mania for Egyptian monoliths; and Edward Durell Stone's romantic “flights of fancy” and Philip Johnson's wicked brand of cynical cultural and sociopolitical critique. Deftly moving among architecture, film, philosophy, and politics, Lieber illuminates the artifice that resulted from the conjunction of high style and mass-cultural values in postwar America