Cinematic Geopolitics

Author : Michael J. Shapiro
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134002068
Total Pages : 190 pages
Book Rating : 4.61/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Cinematic Geopolitics written by Michael J. Shapiro and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2008-10-27 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In recent years, film has been one of the major genres within which the imaginaries involved in mapping the geopolitical world have been represented and reflected upon. In this book, one of America's foremost theorists of culture and politics treats those aspects of the "geopolitical aesthetic" that must be addressed in light of both the post cold war and post 9/11 world and contemporary film theory and philosophy. Beginning with an account of his experience as a juror at film festival’s, Michael J. Shapiro’s Cinematic Geopolitics analyzes the ways in which film festival space and both feature and documentary films function as counter-spaces to the contemporary "violent cartography" occasioned by governmental policy, especially the current "war on terror." Influenced by the cinema-philosophy relationship developed by Gilles Deleuze and the politics of aesthetics thinking of Jacques Ranciere, the book’s chapters examines a range of films from established classics like the Deer Hunter and the Battle of Algiers to contemporary films such as Dirty Pretty Things and the Fog of War. Shapiro’s use of philosophical and theoretical works makes this cutting edge examination of film and politics essential reading for all students and scholars with an interest in film and politics.

Author : Michael J. Shapiro
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134002076
Total Pages : 190 pages
Book Rating : 4.78/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Cinematic Geopolitics written by Michael J. Shapiro and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2008-10-27 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The new violent cartographies -- Preemption up close : film and Pax Americana -- Fogs of war -- The sublime today : re-partitioning the global sensible -- Aesthetics of disintegration : allegiance and intimacy in the former "Eastern bloc"--Perpetual war?"

Author : Marcus Power
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317999185
Total Pages : 222 pages
Book Rating : 4.88/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Cinema and Popular Geo-politics written by Marcus Power and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-09-13 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With a detailed range of approaches, this new collection investigates how cinematic narratives can and have been used to portray different political 'threats' and 'dangers'. Including a range of chapters with a contemporary focus, it studies issues such as: how the geopolitical world has been constructed through film how cinema can provide explanatory narratives in periods of cultural and political anxiety, uneasiness and uncertainty. Examining the ways in which film impacts upon popular understandings of national identity and the changing geopolitical world, the book looks at how audiences make sense of the (geo)political messages and meanings contained within a variety of films - from the US productions of Hollywood, to Palestinian, Mexican, British, and German cinematic traditions. This thought-provoking book draws on an international range of contributions to discuss and fully investigate world cinema in light of key contemporary issues. This book was previously published as a special issue of Geopolitics.

Author : Marijke de Valck
Publisher : Leiden University Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.43/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Film Festivals written by Marijke de Valck and published by Leiden University Press. This book was released on 2007 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first comprehensive study of film festivals that marks key historical moments and offers surprising insights into the workings of a highly influentiual cultural network

Author : Michael J. Shapiro
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0429947321
Total Pages : 313 pages
Book Rating : 4.22/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Cinematic Political written by Michael J. Shapiro and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-11-01 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book, Michael J. Shapiro stages a series of pedagogical encounters between political theory, represented as a compositional challenge, and cinematic texts, emphasizing how to achieve an effective research paper/essay by heeding the compositional strategies of films. The text’s distinctiveness is its focus on the intermediation between two textual genres. It is aimed at providing both a conceptual introduction to the politics of aesthetics and a guide to writing strategies. In its illustrations of encounters between political theory and cinema, the book’s critical edge is its emphasis on how to intervene in cinematic texts with innovative conceptual frames in ways that challenge dominant understandings of life worlds. The Cinematic Political is designed as a teaching resource that introduces students to the relationship between film form and political thinking. With diverse illustrative investigations, the book instructs students on how to watch films with an eye toward writing a research paper in which a film (or set of films) constitutes the textual vehicle for political theorizing.

Author : Michael J. Shapiro
Publisher : Duke University Press
ISBN 13 : 0822372053
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.59/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Political Sublime written by Michael J. Shapiro and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2018-03-09 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In The Political Sublime Michael J. Shapiro formulates an original politics of aesthetics through an analysis of the experience of the sublime. Turning away from Kant's analysis of the sublime experience as a validation of the existence of a universal common sense, Shapiro draws on Deleuze, Lyotard, and Rancière to show how incomprehensible events and dilemmas provide openings for new political formations. He approaches the sublime through a range of artistic and cultural texts that address social crises and natural disasters, from the writing of James Baldwin and Ta-Nehisi Coates to the films of Ingmar Bergman and Spike Lee; these works suggest ways to channel the disruptive effects of the sublime into resistance to authority and innovative political initiative. Whether stemming from the threat of nuclear annihilation or the aftermath of an earthquake, the violence of racism and terrorism or the devastation of industrialism, sublime experience, Shapiro contends, allows for a rethinking of events in ways that reveal, redistribute, and create conditions of possibility for alternative communities of sense.

Author : Robert A. Saunders
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351205013
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.16/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Popular Geopolitics written by Robert A. Saunders and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-04-27 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book brings together scholars from across a variety of academic disciplines to assess the current state of the subfield of popular geopolitics. It provides an archaeology of the field, maps the flows of various frameworks of analysis into (and out of) popular geopolitics, and charts a course forward for the discipline. It explores the real-world implications of popular culture, with a particular focus on the evolving interdisciplinary nature of popular geopolitics alongside interrelated disciplines including media, cultural, and gender studies.

Author : Onoriu Colăcel
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 1476631018
Total Pages : 218 pages
Book Rating : 4.11/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Romanian Cinema of Nationalism written by Onoriu Colăcel and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2018-10-10 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:  Prior to the collapse of communism, Romanian historical movies were political, encouraging nationalistic feelings and devotion to the state. Vlad the Impaler and other such iconic figures emerged as heroes rather than loathsome bloodsuckers, celebrating a shared sense of belonging. The past decade has, however, presented Romanian films in which ordinary people are the stars—heroes, go-getters, swindlers and sore losers. The author explores a wide selection, old and new, of films set in the Romanian past.

Author : Robert A. Saunders
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317569903
Total Pages : 254 pages
Book Rating : 4.09/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Popular Geopolitics and Nation Branding in the Post-Soviet Realm written by Robert A. Saunders and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-07-07 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This seminal book explores the complex relationship between popular geopolitics and nation branding among the Newly Independent States of Eurasia, and their combined role in shaping contemporary national image and statecraft within and beyond the region. It provides critical perspectives on international relations, nationalism, and national identity through the use of innovative approaches focusing on popular culture, new media, public diplomacy, and alternative "narrators" of the nation. By positing popular geopolitics and nation branding as contentious forces and complementary flows, the study explores the tensions and elisions between national self-image and external perceptions of the nation, and how this complex interplay has become integral to contemporary global affairs.

Author : James Phillips
Publisher : Stanford University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780804758000
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.0X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Cinematic Thinking written by James Phillips and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 2008 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This anthology of philosophical essays explores the interpersonal and political contexts in and against which the films of ten major postwar filmmakers were made.