Introduction – From High to Late Postmodernism.- Part One – The Aesthetics of Late Postmodernism.- Chapter 1 – Absolute Style.- Chapter 2: Space as History.- Chapter 3 – Time as Language.- Part Two – The Return of Dialectics.- Chapter 4 – Narrative and Subjectivity.- Chapter 5 – The “Vanishing Point” of Sexual Difference.- Chapter 6 – The Endless End of History.- Conclusion – Godard with Tarantino: Cinema as Enjoyment.
Federico Pagello is Research Fellow in the Department of the Arts at the University of Bologna, Italy. His work on contemporary American film, comics and television, as well as on late 19th and early 20th-century European serial narratives has been published in journals and edited collections in Italian, French and English.