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This book offers a fascinating insight into how film as a medium can portray political thought. Josette Baer's collection of seven essays is the first publication of this kind; her analysis covers films such as The Best of Enemies and The Lost Daughter, and the TV series Breaking Bad and Better Call Saul in an interdisciplinary approach to politics, philosophy, and film.

This book offers a new reading of the work of Portuguese filmmaker Pedro Costa. It provides a formal and detailed analysis of his films to suggest that Costa's formal procedures generate a contingency of meaning. The book proposes that Costa's films suggest a critical thinking posited through the materiality of the cinematic medium that is capable of exposing the limits of filmic representation itself. In addition, the author argues that Costa's political gesture derives from the articulation of the intrinsic elements of the filmic medium rather than the depiction of a social reality.

What tensions characterized the relationships between cinema, European Leftists, and emerging postcolonial ideologies after World War II? In Traveling Auteurs, author Luca Caminati analyzes the work of influential Italian filmmakers Roberto Rossellini, Pier Paolo Pasolini, and Michelangelo Antonioni as they engaged politically and aesthetically with the global landscapes and politics of the Cold War period. As documentaries, the films considered in this book record specific manifestations of political sensibilities of the twentieth century. As bodies of work, they reveal that the traveling auteurs who made them were symptomatic actors in complex geopolitical networks. As cultural objects reflecting and shaping contemporaneous debates, they provoke a complex afterlife at home and abroad. In the three chapters dedicated to Rossellini in India, Pasolini in Africa and the Middle East, and Antonioni in China, Caminati pays particular attention both to the reception that these films had in the countries where they were shot and to their legacies in Italian film history. As it follows the entanglements of filmmakers, artists, and activists involved as allies or direct witnesses to momentous political change, this book sheds new light on anticolonial struggles, the reaffirmation of the Non-Aligned Movement, and the consolidation of the Chinese Communist Party.

This volume explores the political life of rage as it has been experienced and mobilized in the Francosphere since 1968. If mai is remembered as a failure to convert insurrectionary feeling into lasting political change, the vast number of activist groups who have alchemized their anger into resistance over the past fifty years are a testament to the continued, necessary role of rage in political life. This volume traces the various morphologies of anger across French-language literature, thought, cinema and activism. From Black feminisms to punk, flamboyance to suicide, cacophonous sound to riotous song, the contributions probe the aesthetics and politics of rage. This collection also examines the uneven legitimization of political anger – how rage is allowed to be expressed, by whom and in which contexts. Rage is often dismissed as inimical to proper academic inquiry: what unites the contributions in this publication is a commitment to thinking with feeling.

While sizable literature exists on the themes, issues and voices that constitute resistance in historical Indian documentary cinema, less is known about contemporary modes of resistance in Indian documentary. This volume identifies languages and practices of resistance constructed by Indian documentary practitioners located in contemporary global and national contexts organised by majoritarian political discourse, rising social inequalities, tightening media regulatory mechanisms and variable access to digital technologies. Extending its analytical lens beyond textual politics, the volume offers an original conceptualisation of how we identify, mobilise, and recuperate acts of resistance as both represented in documentary and those represented by the organisation of documentary practice e.g., documentary exhibition, curation, education, and criticism. Combining scholarly essays and practitioner writing, the volume offers a timely reconsideration of how central debates and issues of power and representation in documentary may be studied as objects of analysis and as subjective accounts of individual experience, decisions, and actions relating to documentary aesthetics and practice.

In this book, Robert K. Beshara applies decolonial film theory to an analysis of Youssef Chahine's (1997) Al-Masir (Destiny).Transmodern Cinema and Decolonial Film Theory is the first book on decolonial film theory, which unpacks key concepts in decoloniality and decolonial aesthetics. Decolonial film theory is then applied to Youssef Chahine's (1997) historical drama al-Ma?ir in an effort to juxtapose the Egyptian filmmaker (Chahine) and his decolonial cinema to the Andalusian polymath (Ibn Rushd) and his Islamic philosophy.

This book provides the first detailed and comprehensive examination of all the materials making up the Star Wars franchise relating to the portrayal and representation of real-world history and politics.Drawing on a variety of sources, including films, published interviews with directors and actors, novels, comics, and computer games, this volume explores the ways in which historical and contemporary events have been repurposed within Star Wars. It focuses on key themes such as fascism and the Galactic Empire, the failures of democracy, the portrayal of warfare, the morality of the Jedi, and the representations of sex, gender, and race. Through these themes, this study highlights the impacts of the fall of the Soviet Union, the War on Terror, and the failures of the United Nations upon the ‘galaxy far, far away'. By analysing and understanding these events and their portrayal within Star Wars, it shows how the most popular media franchise in existence aims to speak about wider contemporary events and issues.The History and Politics of Star Wars is useful for upper-level undergraduates, postgraduates, and scholars of a variety of disciplines such as transmedia studies, science fiction, cultural studies, and world history and politics in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.

In this book, Pablo Castrillo Maortua analyzes the emergence of the political thriller in Hollywood at a time of angst and turmoil in the United States. The Cold War, the nuclear age, domestic and international scandals, and an increasingly deceitful political culture catalyzed a filmmaking current that would gradually develop its own narrative form and aesthetics into a new genre. Castrillo Maortua explores the dramatic identity and design of the American political thriller, tracking the close correlation between the evolution of the genre and the history of the United States from the Cuban Missile Crisis to the 9/11 terrorist attacks and the ensuing War on Terror. Ultimately, the author demonstrates how the American political thriller defies Hollywood conventions and cultural presuppositions with an entertaining yet critical view of the state of politics. Scholars of film studies, screenwriting, and genre theory will find this book of particular interest.

Western neoliberalism is a predatory outgrowth of late capitalism that overvalues competition, transferring the laws of the market to human relationships. This book advances the argument that anti-neoliberal cinemas of Europe, the United States, and the Russian Federation imagine and visualize alternatives to the non-sovereign realities of a neoliberal workplace that unequivocally endorses dangerous risk-taking, self-optimizing neoliberal subjects, and corporate'entrepreneurs of self.'Always at stake in the examination of neoliberalism's consequences is a human being who is indexed by race, gender, nation, ability, and economic performance. Drawing on film theory, transnational social histories, critical race theory, and Marxist and Foucauldian interpretive models, this book rediscovers a cinema that imagines a social contract focused on the common good and ethical standards for the social state. Anti-neoliberal cinema empowers the viewer as agentive through narratives that detail resistance to Western neoliberal modes of living and working. These filmmakers dramatize the labor of making solidarity across different groups.

Many of Christopher Nolan's films ironically both embrace the tradition of surrealist and Avant-Garde filmmaking while simultaneously providing (at least tacit) support for the Anglo-American liberal world order. For Nolan, this world order, which relies on global capitalism, technocratic supremacy, and ultimate control of world cultural production, is a much greater alternative to either left- or right-wing challenges to this liberalism. In Nolan's films, this liberalism must occasionally use violence and violate some of its core principals of privacy and freedom to maintain its dominance. Nonetheless, Anglo-American liberalism, in Nolan's vision provides a world that is freer, more humane, and more prosperous than other anarchic, Marxist, or fascist alternatives. Finally, (and perhaps most importantly for Nolan) the security, wealth, and freedom of this liberal world order enables the world of art and film to blossom, and the opportunity for Christopher Nolan to create (post-) ironic dream worlds or, in the words of Jean Baudrillard, a “hyperreality”.

La relation entre cinéma et politique nous ouvre un chemin permettant de mieux comprendre les mécanismes intellectuels et la politisation d'une société ; le parcours social des films révèle des dimensions culturelles et politiques difficiles à déceler. Tel est aussi le but de cet ouvrage, qui jette un jour nouveau sur la problématique de la politisation du cinéma après Mai 1968. Consacré à l'interaction entre la genèse sociale, le contenu et la réception critique des films Z, L'Aveu et État de siège de Costa-Gavras, il éclaire, à partir d'entretiens originaux avec le réalisateur, de documents d'archives, de scenarii, d'extraits d'articles de presse publiés en France, en Grèce, en Uruguay ou en Tchécoslovaquie, les spécificités d'un cinéma politique pour le grand public ; cinéma qui apparaît dès lors comme un pôle central dans la communication des débats politiques de l'époque.

Le FLQ et le cinéma québécois sont nés en même temps, au début des années 1960, lors de la Révolution tranquille. Plusieurs jeunes cinéastes étaient indépendantistes et séduits, de surcroît, par un projet utopique de révolution. La quasi-totalité des bâtisseurs de notre cinéma national, et presque tous nos grands cinéastes, ont évoqué le FLQ dans leurs films. Le livre de Sylvain Garel est un ouvrage de référence qui deviendra un incontournable pour les cinéphiles. Divisé en deux parties (un essai historique et un index de films), ce livre nous présente plus de 200 œuvres, fictions ou documentaires, courts ou longs métrages, qui évoquent de près ou de loin le FLQ et son acmé, la crise d'Octobre. Après des milliers d'heures de visionnement, Garel a rédigé des notices fouillées, fruit d'une recherche minutieuse. Son livre est une mine d'or d'informations.

This book provides an interdisciplinary exploration of the cinematic representations of the experiences of African women and girls in situations of political conflict.The role of cinema is important in providing information about the situation of women and girls in situations of political conflict, and the main characters often also become signifiers of wider social, political and economic ideas, at both global and local levels. Drawing on fictional and biographical cinematic representations, this book considers films covering a range of different regions, experiences, historical periods and other contexts, to draw a nuanced picture of African women and girls who participate in or are affected by African political conflicts. The films are analysed using a decolonial feminist cultural approach, which combines cultural approaches, African feminisms and the contrapuntal method to ensure an inter-textual, intersectional and decolonial examination. The book engages with multiple themes and topics, including nationalism, nation-building, neocolonialism, memory, history, women's and girls'agency and activism. Through these themes and topics, the book explores how the films represent African women's and girls'agency in relation to their participation in social, economic and political activities.This book will make a significant contribution to literature focused on African women and girls within politics, conflict studies and film studies.

In Chinese Cinema: Identity, Power, and Globalization, a variety of scholars explore the history, aesthetics, and politics of Chinese cinema as the Chinese film industry grapples with its place as the second largest film industry in the world. Exploring the various ways that Chinese cinema engages with global politics, market forces, and film cultures, this edited volume places Chinese cinema against an array of contexts informing the contours of Chinese cinema today. The book also demonstrates that Chinese cinema in the global context is informed by the intersections and tensions found in Chinese and world politics, national and international co-productions, the local and global in representing Chineseness, and the lived experiences of social and political movements versus screened politics in Chinese film culture. This work is a pioneer investigation of the topic and will inspire future research by other scholars of film studies.

Frederic Jameson and Film Theory is the first collection of its kind, it assesses and critically responds to Fredric Jameson's remarkable contribution to film theory. The essays assembled explore key Jamesonian concepts—such as totality, national allegory, geopolitics, globalization, representation, and pastiche—and his historical schema of realism, modernism, and postmodernism, considering, in both cases, how these can be applied, revised, expanded and challenged within film studies. Featuring essays by leading and emerging voices in the field, the volume probes the contours and complexities of neoliberal capitalism across the globe and explores world cinema's situation within these forces by deploying and adapting Jamesonian concepts, and placing them in dialogue with other theoretical paradigms. The result is an innovative and rigorously analytical effort that offers a range of Marxist-inspired approaches towards cinemas from Asia, Latin America, Europe, and North America in the spirit of Jameson's famous rallying cry:'always historicize!'.

This book utilizes philosophical tools to build up a framework for the classification, analysis and assessment of political cinema. The author first maps the category of political cinema, clarifying what it means for a film to be ‘political', and then analyzes the relation between the value of a film as a political film and its value as art.Through philosophical enquiry, Angelo Emanuele Cioffi builds up a framework that could be of use in art-critical practice and that can help with the classification and assessment of political films. Grounded in analytic philosophy of art and cognitivist film theory, with insights from political science, political philosophy, epistemology and cognitive science, the book presents a unique analysis of the relation between films and the ‘political'. This theory is tested with detailed case studies, and the author uses specific films as examples of the applicability and explanatory power of this theoretical framework.As such, this book will be of interest not just to film studies, film theory and political philosophy scholars, but to anyone with an interest in political film, aesthetic practice and philosophy of art.

While understanding the psychic structure of pleasure and desire might seem to be unrelated to grasping our current political crisis, Todd McGowan argues that the intrinsically excessive nature of enjoyment is critically important to this effort. In a world that appears completely divided between right and left, McGowan calls for a universal form of enjoyment that unites people in an egalitarian project. Todd McGowan's previous books include Emancipation After Hegel, Capitalism and Desire, and The Impossible David Lynch, among others. He teaches theory and film at the University of Vermont.

“Brisk [and] forceful.” Sight & Sound'Lucidly argued.” Total FilmMargarethe von Trotta and Volker Schlöndorff's The Lost Honour of Katharina Blum (1975) was a pivotal film for the New German Cinema movement. Julian Preece considers what makes Katharina Blum new and radical, in particular in respect of women's cinema and its portrayal of the ordeal of its female lead in a world run by men. Drawing on archival material including drafts of the screenplay, brochures and props, reviews and interviews, Preece traces the conception of the film and its development from Heinrich Böll's original novel.Preece analyses how the film continues to resonate with our contemporary moment and has influenced film-makers from the German-Turkish director Fatih Akin to the British screenwriter Peter Morgan.

In kulturgeschichtlicher Perspektive galt die Weimarer Republik schon immer als Zeit des Aufbruchs, des Experimentierens und als Phase einer enormen künstlerischen, kulturellen und intellektuellen Produktivität. Die Politik der Weimarer Jahre bildete in dieser auch erinnerungskulturell verbreiteten Sichtweise lange nur das bedrohliche Hintergrundrauschen beim'Tanz auf dem Vulkan'. Dabei durchdrangen die Verarbeitung von Krieg und Revolution und das Ringen um die politische Zukunft Deutschlands nahezu alle kulturellen Bereiche und auch die äußerst dynamische Medienlandschaft. Die neu geschaffenen Freiheiten der Republik boten dafür die besten Voraussetzungen. Künstlerische und technische Innovationen trieben die Politisierung der Kultur und Medien sowie die Medialisierung der Politik zusätzlich voran. Die Autorinnen und Autoren nehmen diese enge Verzahnung der Politik mit der Kultur und den Medien der Weimarer Republik in den Fokus. Die Stichproben aus Presse, Publizistik, Film, Illustrierten, Plakatkunst, Literatur und Architektur geben starke Hinweise darauf, dass es in Zeiten höchster Politisierung und scharfer Auseinandersetzungen um die Republik für nahezu alle Medien- und Kulturschaffenden unmöglich wurde, ein'Unpolitischer'(Th. Mann) zu bleiben.

Przerwane emancypacje Sebastiana Jagielskiego mają szansę stać się wydarzeniem, zważywszy na ich polemiczny charakter i komentarze do wątków żywo dyskutowanych we współczesnej debacie publicznej: historii ludowych, prześnionych rewolucji, emancypacji kobiet w socjalizmie, relacji polsko-żydowskich. Przekonuje on, że w latach 1968–1982, a więc między Marcem 1968 roku a „Solidarnością”, dwiema rewolucjami konserwatywnymi, wyłaniała się nowa struktura odczuwania, która niosła ze sobą potencjał emancypacyjny (kobiet, chłopów i robotników, Żydów, homoseksualistów), autonomiczny względem wartości narodowych i religijnych, ale został on odrzucony, powściągnięty, niezrealizowany. Trafnie dostrzega freudowskie „wiązanie” nierozładowanego emancypacyjnego potencjału prześnionej rewolucji z energią kontestacji na Zachodzie. Przerwane emancypacje są zatem tyleż pracą akademicką, co manifestem metody i politycznej wrażliwości. dr hab. Monika Talarczyk, prof. PWSFTviT w Łodzi Książka Sebastiana Jagielskiego, będąca nie tylko pracą filmoznawczą, ale też fascynującą wiwisekcją pewnego brzemiennego w skutki czasu w polskiej kulturze, dowodzi, że jest pracą wyemancypowaną w tym sensie, że swobodnie korzystając z inspiracji z wielu dziedzin humanistyki, proponuje własny oryginalny język i ważkie ogólnokulturowe rozpoznania rozwijane w oparciu o partykularną dziedzinę historii kina polskiego. Kino służy jako znakomity materiał do ukazania szerszych procesów, życia kultury, zmiennej gry jej znaczeń i wartości. Książka Przerwane emancypacje stanowi udaną, brawurową próbę zaproponowania nowej optyki oraz nowego języka opisu dla istotnego (po lekturze książki Jagielskiego rzec można, znacznie istotniejszego niż pierwotnie się wydawało) okresu historii kina polskiego. dr hab. Marcin Adamczak, prof. UAM Jeśli angielskie słowo excess oznacza przede wszystkim nadmiar, to „eksces” w języku polskim wiąże się niemal wyłącznie z destabilizacją normy. Pochodzący od łacińskiego excessus (zboczenie, odstąpienie od obowiązku) „eksces”, zgodnie z definicją zawartą w Słowniku wyrazów obcych z 1971 roku, oznacza „naruszenie porządku publicznego, zakłócenie spokoju; wybryk, wyskok, wykroczenie”. W Przerwanych emancypacjach eksces oznacza strategię politycznego oporu. Za sprawą tego, co nadmiernie cielesne, szokujące czy prowokujące, uwidacznia zerwania i pęknięcia wewnątrz dominujących struktur (ideologicznych, kulturowych, politycznych), ujawniając zarazem to, co te struktury tłumią, ukrywają i wykluczają. Są to opowieści o tym, jak histeryczne, straumatyzowane i ekstatyczne ciała podważają porządek społeczny, antycypując jednocześnie nowe sposoby bycia i odczuwania w świecie. Sebastian Jagielski – kulturoznawca i filmoznawca, adiunkt w Instytucie Sztuk Audiowizualnych Uniwersytetu Jagiellońskiego. Jest autorem monografii Maskarady męskości. Pragnienie homospołeczne w polskim kinie fabularnym (2013). Współredagował między innymi tomy: Ciało i seksualność w kinie polskim (2009) i Kino polskie jako kino transnarodowe (2017). Publikował w „Tekstach Drugich”, „Kwartalniku Filmowym”, „Didaskaliach” i „Studies in European Cinema”. Wyróżniony w konkursie im. Inki Brodzkiej-Wald (2013) na najlepszą pracę doktorską dotyczącą współczesności z dziedziny humanistyki. Zajmuje się historią kina polskiego ujmowaną z perspektywy teorii krytycznych.

This book explores the circulation of anger and hostility in contemporary American culture with particular attention to the fantasy of refusal, a dream of rejecting all the structures of the contemporary political and economic system. Framing the question of public sentiment through the lens of rhetorical studies, this book traces the circulation of symbols that craft public feelings in contemporary popular cinema. Analyzing popular twenty-first century films as invitations to a particular way of feeling, the book delves into the way popular sentiments are circulated and intensified. The book examines dystopian films (The Purge, The Cabin in the Woods), science fiction (Snowpiercer), and superhero narratives (the Marvel Cinematic Universe and Joker). Across these varied films, an affective economy that emphasizes grief, betrayal, refusal, and an underlying rage at the seeming hopelessness of contemporary culture is uncovered. These examinations are framedin terms of ongoing political protests ranging from Occupy Wall Street, the Tea Party, Black Lives Matter, and the 6th January 2021 invasion of the US Capitol Building.

In a world in which political opportunity and liberation seem far away, the genre of science fiction grows in cultural importance and popularity. The contributors to this collection are political and social theorists from a range of disciplines who use science fiction as inspiration for new theories and examples of speculative politics. In dystopian governments, they find locations and forms of resistance. Representations of Political Resistance and Emancipation in Science Fiction explores a range of political and social theoretical concerns for the twenty-first century. Contributors analyze themes of post-humanism, resistance, agency, political community making, and ethics and politics during the Anthropocene.

The Cold War on Film illustrates how to use film as a teaching tool. It stands on its own as an account of both the war and the major films that have depicted it.Memories of the Cold War have often been shaped by the popular films that depict it–for example, The Manchurian Candidate, The Hunt for Red October, and Charlie Wilson's War, among others. The Cold War on Film examines how the Cold War has been portrayed through a selection of 10 iconic films that represent it through dramatization and storytelling, as opposed to through documentary footage.The book includes an introduction to the war's history and a timeline of events. Each of the 10 chapters that follow focuses on a specific Cold War film. Chapters offer a uniquely detailed level of historical context for the films, weighing their depiction of events against the historical record and evaluating how well or how poorly those films reflected the truth and shaped public memory and discourse over the war. A comprehensive annotated bibliography of print and electronic sources aids students and teachers in further research.

¿Qué lugar ocupan el nuevo cine argentino y el mexicano en el horizonte del final del arte? En la época de la imagen total el cine continúa —contra las profecías de su eclipse— como mecanismo de constitución de identificación colectiva. De esto da cuenta el libro de Cristina Gómez Moragas a través del análisis semiótico de personajes que representan trayectorias de excepción, sujeción y disyunción en espacios vacíos de derecho. En estos espacios examina la estética de la violencia como una forma de representación de lo político a través de la banda que juzga al corrupto (Nueve reinas); de la violencia de un exmilitar (El custodio); de la barbarie de los sicarios (Amores perros); de la revancha justiciera de un exconvicto (Un oso rojo) y de las poblaciones excedentarias en el norte de México (El infierno).

This book offers new ways of constellating the literary and cinematic delineations of Indian and Pakistani Muslim diasporic and migrant trajectories narrated in the two decades after the 9/11 attacks. Focusing on four Pakistani English novels and four Indian Hindi films, it examines the aesthetic complexities of staging the historical nexus of global conflicts and unravels the multiple layers of discourses underlying the notions of diaspora, citizenship, nation and home. It scrutinises the “flirtatious” nature of transnational desires and their role in building glocal safety valves for inclusion and archiving a planetary vision of trauma. It also provides a fresh perspective on the role of Pakistani English novels and mainstream Hindi films in tracing the multiple origins and shifts in national xenophobic practices, and negotiating multiple modalities of political and cultural belonging. It discusses various books and films including The Reluctant Fundamentalist, Burnt Shadows, My Name is Khan, New York, Exit West, Home Fire, AirLift and Tiger Zinda Hai.In light of the twentieth anniversary of 9/11 attacks, current debates on terror, war, paranoid national imaginaries and the suspicion towards migratory movements of refugees, this book makes a significant contribution to the interdisciplinary debates on border controls and human precarity. A crucial work in transnational and diaspora criticism, it will be of great interest to researchers of literature and culture studies, media studies, politics, film studies, and South Asian studies.

Este volumen es una reflexión sobre cómo el 23-F, un evento fundamental en la historia española contemporánea y en la Transición, ha ido transformándose en su narrativa, y cómo dicho cambio se ha gestado en la producción cultural y artística a lo largo de cuatro décadas. Dividido en ocho capítulos, se analizan novelas, películas, series de televisión, documentales, obras de teatro e instalaciones escultóricas bajo la perspectiva de qué obras reaccionan y cuáles accionan, entendiendo como obras reactivas aquellas que continúan con el statu quo sin generar perspectivas distintas, frente a las obras activas que posibilitan nuevos enfoques y aproximaciones alternativas con el paso del tiempo.En definitiva, esta edición es una invitación a que el/la lector/a revisite las narrativas establecidas sobre el 23-F y asimismo se acerque a otros modos de (re)presentarlo, para tener una experiencia más completa del acontecimiento y sus implicaciones.

Davantage que des objets de divertissement ou des produits culturels consommés à l'échelle mondiale, les films sont aussi des porte-étendards de valeurs, des outils de propagande utilisés tant dans des démocraties confirmées qu'au sein de régimes autoritaires. Cet ouvrage analyse les moyens dont disposent les industries du cinéma pour aider les États à exercer des moyens de domination dans les relations internationales, qu'il s'agisse d'une domination « concrète » ou plus « symbolique » démontrant ainsi que les films ne sont pas « juste » des produits de divertissement, mais bien un instrument stratégique à part entière..

El propósito de este libro es analizar las relaciones que se dan entre cultura política, visualidades y cine; este objetivo se desarrollará en tres momentos; en el primero se determinan las implicaciones en la constitución de sujetos y la cultura política contemporánea, en el segundo, el diálogo entre la investigación y la creación artística, con los modelos de producción de conocimiento y saber científico, en el ámbito universitario y finalmente, una subdivisión entre la reflexión del cine a partir de la filosofía y las concepciones de justicia que se expresan o configuran en producciones visuales. Estas cuestiones surgen en virtud de las tensiones que se dan entre la creación en el campo de las artes y la investigación en el campo académico, en este sentido, este libro busca articular de una manera transdisciplinar la filosofía, el arte, los estudios visuales y la educación proponiendo analizar las relaciones que se dan entre sujeto, cultura política y cine. Abstract The purpose of this book is to analyze the relationships that exist between political culture, visualities and cinema; This objective will be developed in three moments; in the first, the implications in the constitution of subjects and contemporary political culture are determined, in the second, the dialogue between research and artistic creation, with the production models of knowledge and scientific knowledge, in the university environment and finally, a subdivision between the reflection of cinema based on philosophy and the conceptions of justice that are expressed or configured in visual productions. These issues arise due to the tensions that exist between creation in the field of arts and research in the academic field, in this sense, this book seeks to articulate in a transdisciplinar y way philosophy, art, visual studies and education proposing to analyze the relationships that exist between the subject, political culture and cinema.

How can the afterlives of anticapitalist and antidictatorship resistance enliven contemporary imaginaries of social justice? Where can the legacies of authoritarianism be spatially located and challenged? And what roles can film play in reckoning with these spectral inheritances? Picturing Ghosts addresses these questions in relation to postdictatorship Chile, a country that has become a nodal point in global geopolitical narratives about the obsolescence of socialism, the birth of neoliberalism and «the end of history». Exploring how the Chilean «transition to democracy» has been narrated in film, the book focuses on stories of haunting and rebellion that unsettle hegemonic temporalities and frameworks of memory. Engaging with the idea of haunting as a trope, a conceptual metaphor and a structure of feeling, it considers different approaches to reckoning with the present past as an emancipatory presence – a multiplicity of unfinished projects and unanswered questions that the cultural imaginary of late capitalism hastens to smooth over. Through a cartographic approach to analysis, this study looks beyond established landscapes of memorialisation in Chile, encountering rebellious subjects and stories in houses and haciendas, poblaciones, the presidential palace, the Atacama Desert, shopping malls, public schools and university campuses. In doing so, it contributes to an emerging field of research that problematises the dominant spatial and temporal imaginaries of «post-conflict» transitions, striving to construct more inclusive and transformative conceptions of truth, justice and emancipation.

By presenting a new political framework, the book looks at the sci-fi film genre's important critical role in a post-political world, deepening and elucidating our understanding of the post-political present and hence reopening the political imagination to possible future trajectories beyond the horizon of the present.

Both politically and aesthetically, the contemporary German and Austrian film landscape is a far cry from the early days of the medium, when critics like Siegfried Kracauer produced foundational works of film theory amid the tumult of the early twentieth century. Yet, as Leila Mukhida demonstrates in this innovative study, the writings of figures like Kracauer and Walter Benjamin in fact remain an undervalued tool for understanding political cinema today. Through illuminating explorations of Michael Haneke, Valeska Grisebach, Andreas Dresen, and other filmmakers of the post-reunification era, Mukhida develops an analysis centered on film aesthetics and experience, showing how medium-specific devices like lighting, sound, and mise-en-scène can help to cultivate political sensitivity in spectators.

This collection explores the politics and aesthetics of filmmaking across Europe in flux. It brings together scholars from Spain to Estonia, Hungary to Britain, in order to trace European filmmakers'diverse responses to the interlinked upheavals and emergencies of the past three decades.

This book contends that Hollywood films help illuminate the incongruities of various periods in American diplomacy. From the war film Bataan to the Revisionist Western The Wild Bunch, cinema has long reflected US foreign policy's divisiveness both directly and allegorically. Beginning with the 1990s presidential drama The American President and concluding with Joker's allegorical treatment of the Trump era, this book posits that the paradigms for political reflection are shifting in American film, from explicit subtexts surrounding US statecraft to covert representations of diplomatic disarray. It further argues that the International Relations theorist Walter Mead's concept of a US polity dominated by contesting beliefs, or a ‘kaleidoscope', permeates these changing paradigms. This synergy reveals a cultural milieu where foreign policy fissures are increasingly encoded by cinematic representation. The interdisciplinarity of this focus renders this book pertinent reading for scholars and students of American Studies, Film Studies and International Relations, along with those generally interested in Hollywood filmmakers and foreign policy.

Franklin Delano Roosevelt famously declared that “the greatest duty of a statesman is to educate.'The central claim of Why Moralize upon It? is that it is not only statesmen who can help educate a democratic citizenry, but also novelists and filmmakers. This book's title is drawn from Melville's “Benito Cereno.” Near the end of this novella, after he has put down a rebellion of enslaved Africans, the American captain Amasa Delano claims that “the past is passed,” and thus there is no need to “moralize upon it.”Melville suggests, though, that it is crucial for Americans to critically examine American history and American political institutions; otherwise, they may be blind to the existence of injustices which will ultimately undermine democracy. Danoff argues that novels and films play a crucial role in helping democratic citizens undertake the kind of moral reflection that they must engage in if they are to not only preserve their political community, but also render it “forever worthy of the saving,” as Abraham Lincoln put it. Contending that some of the most profound American thinking about the nature of democratic leadership has come through novels more so than treatises or essays, Danoff argues that the works of fiction examined in this book explore difficult questions rather than provide any easy answers. Because these works have an ambiguous, nuanced, and tragic outlook, they teach citizen-readers how to think through the moral complexities of the political issues on which they must render judgment. The rich and multi-faceted democratic education that citizens glean from outstanding works of fiction is particularly necessary at a time when the media-landscape is often dominated by superficial “viral moments,” “sound-bites,” and social media posts. Moreover, given that we today live in an era of sharp political polarization in which partisans often demonize one another, it is especially valuable for Americans to be exposed to literary and cinematic works of art which remind us that none of us have a monopoly on virtue, and that all of us inhabit what Melville called “the common continent of men.”

Inusuales: hogar, sexualidad y política en el cine hispano apunta hacia diversas muestras del cine hispano para explorar su denominador principal —lo inusual— cuya presencia, en última instancia, genera críticas sociopolíticas y culturales acerca de los contextos que las inspiran. Aunque responden a contextos culturales diferentes, los ensayos enfatizan ciertos comportamientos, subjetividades y emociones en común que se rebelan contra lo aceptable o lo normativo de maneras suma y sutilmente transgresoras. Como resultado palpable en este estudio, se desvela la tendencia a armar historias donde los protagonistas optan divergentemente por lo liminal y lo poco visible socialmente, solo para hacer resaltar la crítica hacia lo sumamente visible, lo asfixiantemente normativo y lo frecuentemente opresor. Si bien las tres categorías conceptuales —el hogar, la sexualidad y la política— emergen como el eje principal de Inusuales, su otro hilo latente se alberga en las aproximaciones cinematográficas a las emociones y, en menor medida, a las tendencias afectivas. El despliegue de lo emocional desde luego surge tenuemente en estas cintas para facilitar, complicar, e inclusive subrayar, las interacciones intersubjetivas de éxitos, fracasos o regeneraciones dentro y, particularmente, fuera de los espacios hogareños convencionales, así como alejados de las relaciones impuestas por las dinámicas de políticas patriarcales. La dinámica emocional en cada película, cuya intensidad se revela de manera singular y resueltamente descentrada, se debe principalmente a las fragmentaciones intersubjetivas que las reflejan. Dichas fragmentaciones casi siempre se encuentran arraigadas a ultranza en lo socialmente poco normativo —la habilidad de relacionarse con el otro plena, esporádica o accidentalmente y así encolerizar el heteropatriarcado a través de ciertas convergencias político-hogareñas y de sexualidad— que además revela y reajusta la multidimensionalidad relacional que rige lo inusual.

Towards a Political Aesthetics of Cinema: The Outside of Film is a contribution to an aesthetics of cinema rooted in Marxist theory. Rather than focusing on the role that certain films, or the cinema as an institution, might play in political consciousness, the book asks a different question: how can the subject of politics in film be thought? This problem is presented in a systematic-theoretical rather than historical manner. The main aim of this book is a retrospective rehabilitation of the psychoanalytical concept of'suture,'whose political core is progressively revealed. In a second step, this rereading of'suture'-theory is mediated with the Marxist aesthetics of Fredric Jameson. From the perspective of this reconfigured aesthetics of negativity, films by Hitchcock, Antonioni, Haneke and Kubrick are analyzed as articulations of a political unconscious.

This book explores historical discourses on the various forms of identity production in film that are based on memory and shows how these narratives get'mediated'by (documentary) film. Most films about the Balkans produced in the last two decades were in fact made in response to immediate concerns about the economic crises and political conflicts that struck the region during the 1990s. These new forms of communication about history mostly show a rather self-critical approach.The book's case studies give the reader a clear idea of how processes informing identity formations are directly launched and later on maintained in peoples'real and everyday lives. Thus, the case studies'principal objective is to integrate the study of'private space'with existing macro-debates in politics as well as with dominant discourses within the academic community. The included case studies focus on several topics, i.e. migration, the reproduction and protection of personal as well as collective identities in post-socialist societies, revolutionary processes towards the official end of the Cold War, the (re-)creation of politically constructed narratives, generational conflicts in the post-socialist period, and the fate of women during the war.The multifaceted view of the region under focus in this study shows that common grounds and differences co-exist in the Balkan space, be it on a cultural, economic, social or (geo)-political level. Apart from the field of film studies, this work is a powerful contribution to cultural history as well as to the growing field of visual history.

Política como Produto: Pra Frente, Brasil, Roberto Farias e a Ditadura Militar é uma análise das relações entre a produção cinematográfica e o Estado brasileiro durante a ditadura militar (1964-1985), a partir de Pra Frente, Brasil, um dos filmes políticos mais emblemáticos e controversos do período e da trajetória profissional de seu diretor. Trata-se de um estudo afinado com os avanços mais recentes da historiografia sobre o período ditatorial e que, ao mesmo tempo, propõe um olhar histórico para o cinema que leve em conta, sem distinções hierárquicas, elementos estéticos e político-contextuais. É, nesse sentido, também uma contribuição aos historiadores que têm nos filmes seus objetos de pesquisa.

Les films du cinéaste grec Théo Angelopoulos (1935-2012) incarnent un cinéma politique qui remet en question l'idéologie totalitaire. A travers la fiction, ils évoquent l'histoire de la Grèce contemporaine et celle de la seconde moitié du XXè siècle en Europe. Mais c'est une esthétique poétique qui donne à cette réflexion politique toute sa puissance de suggestion. Le livre de Michel Estève est le premier en France à proposer une réflexion approfondie sur toute l'oeuvre de Théo Angelopoulos.

Comprising essays from some of the leading scholars and practitioners in the field, this is the first book to investigate twenty-first century radical film practices across production, distribution and exhibition at a global level. This book explores global radical film culture in all its geographic, political and aesthetic diversity. It is inspired by the work of the Radical Film Network (RFN), an organisation established in 2013 to support the growth and sustainability of politically engaged film culture around the world. Since then, the RFN has grown rapidly, and now consists of almost 200 organisations across four continents, from artists'studios and production collectives to archives, distributors and film festivals. With this foundation, the book engages with contemporary radical film cultures in Africa, Asia, China, Europe, the Middle East as well as North and South America, and connects key historical moments and traditions with the present day. Topics covered include artists'film and video, curation, documentary, feminist and queer film cultures, film festivals and screening practices, network-building, policy interventions and video-activism. For students, researchers and practitioners, this fascinating and wide-ranging book sheds new light on the political potential of the moving image and represents the activists and organisations pushing radical film forward in new and exciting directions.For more information about the Radical Film Network, visit www.radicalfilmnetwork.com.

In Allegories of the End of Capitalism, Milo Sweedler deconstructs the events of films Melancholia; Cosmopolis; Suffragette; Django Unchained; Elysium and Snowpiercer, the socio-political contexts they arise from and enter into, and their impact on contemporary culture and life. He examines how filmmakers from six different countries, across four continents, give narrative and audio-visual form to the frustration and anger that burst into public view in 2011, the ongoing class war between the super-rich and the rest of the world's population, and the insurrection that it yet to come.

Esta obra, dirigida tanto al cinéfilo como al estudioso de la política, reúne por primera vez a un grupo de politólogos de ocho países y diferentes generaciones que están ligados por una doble pasión la ciencia política y el cine. La pasión compartida por los autores encuentra una confluencia en la consideración de estos fenómenos como objetos de estudio, pero también como asuntos que llenan sus existencias vitales. A partir de esta coincidencia, ellos escriben sobre películas y sus directores y sobre una diversidad de temáticas de la ciencia política, abordando algunos de los aspectos que componen la compleja relación entre política y cine. La política va al cine es una contribución colectiva a la reflexión que vincula al cine con la política y a la política con el cine. Pero sobre todo es un anhelo por rescatar y poner en valor, desde la mirada del cine, a lo político como una faceta inherente e imprescindible del ser humano. Manuel Alcántara Licenciado y doctor en Ciencia Política y Sociología por la Universidad Complutense de Madrid. Desde 1993 es catedrático de Ciencia Política en la Universidad de Salamanca; asimismo, es profesor emérito visitante de Flacso-Ecuador. Sus publicaciones se refieren principalmente a política comparada en América Latina y a élites políticas. Su último libro publicado es El oficio de político (2012). Santiago Mariani Es licenciado en Relaciones Internacionales por la Universidad del Salvador y Master of Science (MSc) en Políticas Públicas de América Latina por el Centro de Estudios de América Latina, perteneciente al St. Antony's College de la Universidad de Oxford. Fue becario de la Fundación Carolina para realizar el máster en Acción Política y Participación Ciudadana en el Estado de Derecho en el programa de la Universidad Francisco Vitoria, la Universidad Rey Juan Carlos y el Ilustre Colegio de Abogados de Madrid. Es profesor del Departamento Académico de Ciencias Sociales y Políticas de la Universidad del Pacífico.

By casting a wider net on the definition of torture, the author promotes a radical, theoretical reframing of our concept of torture and suggests that audiovisual products can help broaden our comprehension of torture as an event which includes collective and emotional dimensions and long-term social effects.

In Celluloid Saviours, the author analyses a corpus of US films dating from the silent era that she calls film blanc. In these fantasy films a guardian spirit with extraordinary powers suspends the ordinary, known laws of time and space, and a main character reforms himself or herself in life-changing ways.The author argues that the historical pattern of film blanc relates to the rise and fall of liberal and reform thought in US politics, specifically to conceptions of human nature as a tabula rasa. This conception is evident both in the early feature films featuring angels such as Chaplin's The Kid and much later examples such as the 1980s box office hit, Trading Places.She argues that this narrative tradition runs from Hollywood's beginnings to the present day and is foreshadowed in the English ghost stories of Charles Dickens. The classic era of film blanc is epitomised in the enduringly popular film, It's a Wonderful Life. More recent examples of narrative form analysed by Caston include The Truman Show and Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind.

Sometimes called the “literature of ideas,” science fiction is a natural medium for normative political philosophy. Science fiction's focus on technology, space and time travel, non-human lifeforms, and parallel universes cannot help but invoke the perennial questions of political life, including the nature of a just social order and who should rule; freedom, free will, and autonomy; and the advantages and disadvantages of progress. Rather than offering a reading of a work inspired by a particular thinker or tradition, each chapter presents a careful reading of a classic or contemporary work in the genre (a novel, short story, film, or television series) to illustrate and explore the themes and concepts of political philosophy.