Dangerous Knowledge: The JFK Assassination in Art and Film [Anglais] [Broché]

Beginning with a description of a poster for a punk band and ending with a critique of the movie JFK (the exemplary "Hollywood narrative discourse"), this work marshals an impressive array of cultural information in attempting to provide an overall history of the genre. Simon (Montclair State Univ.) closely examines images and films, relating them to the continuing struggle over the authoring and interpretation of the story of Kennedy's death. Sections are devoted to the journalistic evidence, including the Zapruder film; the works of avant-garde artists Andy Warhol, Bruce Connor, the Ant Farm, and what Simon calls the "Pop Camp"; and, finally, a group of Hollywood films. The author handles the films with flair, providing a chapter on the underappreciated Connor's Report, which we learn in the epilog actually inspired the entire effort. Simon's stated aim of providing a context?a history?is not clearly fulfilled, but this critical examination will no doubt interest all who continue to be fascinated by this controversy.?Jane E. Sloan, Rutgers Univ. Libs., New Brunswick, N.J.
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Beginning with a description of a poster for a punk band and ending with a critique of the movie JFK, this work marshals an impressive array of cultural information in attempting to provide an overall history of the genre. Simon closely examines images and films, relating them to the continuing struggle over the authoring and interpretation of the story of Kennedy's death.-Library Journal --Ce texte fait référence à une édition épuisée ou non disponible de ce titre.

An intriguing work of cultural criticism on the contemporary meaning and influence of images from the JFK assassination --Ce texte fait référence à une édition épuisée ou non disponible de ce titre.

The assassination of John F. Kennedy provoked intense public debates and focused the world's attention on the recorded details of the event in still and moving images. Intense scrutiny of the testimony and images became a national obsession. Dangerous Knowledge argues that the very currents that powered the debates also prompted a crisis in interpretation that profoundly affected American culture.

From 1963 to the present day, amateur sleuths have proposed compelling theories of who was responsible for Kennedy's death and why. In the process they entered into an ongoing struggle centered in questions of authority: Who has access to evidence and the power to interpret history? What is the relation of photographs and films to the writing of history? To show how this struggle literally changed history and figured in the avant-garde's artistic production, Art Simon considers a wide range of cultural work shaped by the assassination.

Simon reveals the influence of the assassination theorists on commercial films such as JFK and Parallax View and shows how the images that blanketed the media resurfaced in Andy Warhol's silk screens, work and underground film of Bruce Conner, and other 1960s artists where they become vehicles for challenging the truth value of photographs or the public's endless fascination with celebrities. --Ce texte fait référence à une édition épuisée ou non disponible de ce titre.

ART SIMON is Assistant Professor of Film Studies at Montclair State University, New Jersey. --Ce texte fait référence à une édition épuisée ou non disponible de ce titre.