Description
Book SynopsisIn 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 festivalâs, Michael J. Shapiroâs 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 bookâs chapters examines a range of films from established classics like the
Trade Review
'Cinematic Geopolitics offers an engaging theoretical, political and historical discussion of how film is enabling a "re-mapping of the world" through the body and technology.' - Brian Faucette, Scope: An Online Journal of Film and Television Studies, October 2011
Table of Contents
1. The New Violent Cartography 2. The Sublime Today 3. Lifting the Fog of War 4. Preemption Up Close 5. The Aesthetics of Disintegration 6. Perpetual War
