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Author : Ian Fraser
Release : 2018-01-15
Genre : Political Science
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Book Rating : 65X/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Political Theory and Film by : Ian Fraser
Download or read book Political Theory and Film written by Ian Fraser. This book was released on 2018-01-15. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Critically examines how radical political theory and its application to film analysis can provide insight to the aesthetic self during political upheaval and conflict
Author : Bonnie Honig
Release : 2016
Genre : Art
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Book Rating : 179/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Politics, Theory, and Film by : Bonnie Honig
Download or read book Politics, Theory, and Film written by Bonnie Honig. This book was released on 2016. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The disturbing and intense films of Lars von Trier are often dismissed as misogynist, misanthropic, or anti-humanist. This book, however, invites us to engage with his work to found a new feminist vision and discover what might be distinctively hopeful for the future of our fragile human condition.
Author : Ulrich Hamenstädt
Release : 2018-10-01
Genre : Political Science
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Book Rating : 31X/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis The Interplay Between Political Theory and Movies by : Ulrich Hamenstädt
Download or read book The Interplay Between Political Theory and Movies written by Ulrich Hamenstädt. This book was released on 2018-10-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents essays and scientific contributions examining the link between popular media and politics. The essays focus on the question of how political and social change, concepts of power, and utopian elements are reflected in selected films and television series. The book applies a political science perspective, covering theories from political philosophy, political sociology and international relations, and examines a wide range of movies and TV series, such as The Godfather, Fight Club, The Walking Dead and Game of Thrones. It will appeal to anyone interested in studying how political ideas, concepts and messages can be illustrated and visualized using the complex media of movies and TV series.
Author : Bonnie Honig
Release : 2016-08-26
Genre : Political Science
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Book Rating : 209/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Politics, Theory, and Film by : Bonnie Honig
Download or read book Politics, Theory, and Film written by Bonnie Honig. This book was released on 2016-08-26. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lars von Trier's intense, disturbing, and sometimes funny films have led many to condemn him as misogynist or misanthropic. The same films inspire this collection's reflections on how our fears and desires regarding gender, power, race, finitude, family, and fate often thwart -- and sometimes feed -- our best democratic aspirations. The essays in this volume attend to von Trier's role as provocateur, as well as to his films' techniques, topics, and storytelling. Where others accuse von Trier of being clichéd, the editors argue that he intensifies the "clichés of our times" in ways that direct our political energies towards apprehending and repairing a shattered world. The book is certainly for von Trier lovers and haters but, at the same time, political, critical, and feminist theorists entirely unfamiliar with von Trier's films will find this volume's essays of interest. Most of the contributors tarry with von Trier to develop new readings of major thinkers and writers, including Agamben, Bataille, Beauvoir, Benjamin, Deleuze, Euripides, Freud, Kierkegaard, Ranciére, Nietzsche, Winnicott, and many more. Von Trier is both central and irrelevant to much of this work. Writing from the fields of classics, literature, gender studies, philosophy, film and political theory, the authors stage an interdisciplinary intervention in film studies.
Author : Michael J. Shapiro
Release : 2019-11-01
Genre : Political Science
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Book Rating : 321/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis The Cinematic Political by : Michael J. Shapiro
Download or read book The Cinematic Political written by Michael J. Shapiro. This book was released on 2019-11-01. 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.
