RT journal article
T1 Post-Postmodern Cinema at the Turn of the Millennium: Paul Thomas Anderson‘s Magnolia
A1 Bolaño Quintero, Jesús
A2 Filología Francesa e Inglesa
K1 Magnolia
K1 Paul Thomas Anderson
K1 post-postmodern cinema
K1 New Sincerity
K1 French New Wave
K1 Jean-Luc Godard
K1 Vivre sa Vie
AB Starting with an analysis of the significance of the French New Wave for postmodern cinema, this essay sets out to make a study of Paul Thomas Anderson’s Magnolia (1999) as the film that marks the beginning of what could be considered a paradigm shift in American cinema at the end of the 20th century. Building from the much-debated passing of postmodernism, this study focuses on several key postmodern aspects that take a different slant in this movie. The film points out the value of aspects that had lost their meaning within the fiction typical of postmodernism—such as the absence of causality; sincere honesty as opposed to destructive irony; or the loss of faith in Lyotardian meta-narratives. We shall look at the nature of the paradigm shift to link it to the desire to overcome postmodern values through a recovery of Romantic ideas.
PB Universidad de Sevilla
SN 1133-309X
YR 2020
FD 2020
LK http://hdl.handle.net/10498/25859
UL http://hdl.handle.net/10498/25859
LA eng
DS Repositorio Institucional de la Universidad de Cádiz
RD 06-nov-2026