{"product_id":"the-cinematic-political-9781138596177","title":"The Cinematic Political","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn 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. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe 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 ey\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\"The book is an excellent continuum of Shapiro’s path breaking work on the relationship between political theory and film from his pivotal works, \u003cem\u003eCinematic Political Thought\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eCinematic Geopolitics\u003c\/em\u003e. Conceptually and methodologically this book is deepening and enhancing his approach of cinematic thinking in terms of advising the reader on, as he says, the ‘how to’ of relating political theory with cinema as epitomized in his cinematic writing style that problematizes the way we think about and view films.\"\u003c\/strong\u003e — \u003ci\u003eIan Fraser, Senior Lecturer in Politics, Loughborough University, UK \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\"Thanks to digital social media, we are all movie-makers now with global audiences. In this book, Michael J. Shapiro links the grammar of moving images to theorizing about politics in an authoritative and accessible way.\" \u003c\/strong\u003e— \u003cem\u003eTerrell Carver, Professor of Political Theory, University of Bristol, UK\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\"This superb new book insightfully reimagines cinema as a vehicle for 'doing critically oriented political theory.' Much as Hayden White famously helped us to understand how the story of history is narrated (when written or when filmed), here Shapiro brilliantly illuminates how films can compose political theory. In this masterful, mature work, drawing on all his experience, his remarkable intellectual prowess fully in evidence, Shapiro gives political theory a vibrant cinematic dimension. The diverse examples provide accessible entrances for all readers—from Adam Smith to Deleuze and Guattari, from Bertolucci’s \u003cem\u003eThe Conformist\u003c\/em\u003e to \u003cem\u003eThe Cats of Mirikitani, \u003c\/em\u003e\u003cem\u003eSleep Dealer\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eMiss\u003c\/em\u003e \u003cem\u003eBala\u003c\/em\u003e via \u003cem\u003eHoop Dreams\u003c\/em\u003e. Most pertinently, the work’s exploration of fascism has a stark relevance, if not warning, for our time.\"\u003c\/strong\u003e — \u003ci\u003eProfessor David Martin-Jones, Film and Television Studies, University of Glasgow, UK\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e1 Extracting Political Theory From Lars von Trier: Conceptual Interferences With His \u003ci\u003eThe Element of Crime \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e2 Toward a Critical Assessment of \"Now-Time\": Contrasting \u003ci\u003eHoop Dreams \u003c\/i\u003eWith Kubrick’s \u003ci\u003eBarry Lyndon \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e3 Resituating Hiroshima \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e4 \"The Light of Reason\" \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e5 \"Borderline Justice\" \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e6 A Bi-City Cinematic Experience \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e7 The Phenomenology of the Cinema Experience \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAfterword: The Phenomenology of Watching and Writing \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Taylor \u0026 Francis Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50577834213719,"sku":"9781138596177","price":35.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781138596177.jpg?v=1746096875","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-cinematic-political-9781138596177","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}