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Sociology Through the Projector (Hardcover, New)
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Sociology Through the Projector (Hardcover, New)
Series: International Library of Sociology
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Sociology through the Projector takes issue with the question of
how contemporary film can help answering the general, abstract but
still urgent question: what is the social today? This book explains
the performative relation to contemporary social theory in which
cinema functions as a tool for social diagnosis. There is much to
be learned about social theory through an encounter with films as
films are part and parcel of the society they portray. Increasingly
more lay knowledge about social problems and facts stems from
cinema as it offers to large audiences a popular and pedagogical
introduction to social knowledge. Social theory cannot avoid a
critical engagement with cinema as cinema interprets, invents,
displaces and distorts the object of sociological inquiry. This
book will provide a deeper understanding of contemporary social
theory as the chosen films will work as a pedagogical route into
contemporary social theory. The films represent a mix of European
and American blockbusters and more aesthetically orientated films.
The authors question several dominant topics and concerns within
social theory and film studies. Firstly, by cross-examining a
series of concepts such as identity, representation, memory and
surveillance (filming social behaviour) which are of concern to
both film theory and social theory. Secondly, by trying to develop
imaginative approaches to standard social concerns such as
exclusion, gender roles and inequalities, power, infantilisation
and commodification of the social and psychological bonds. This
book will be a great resource for students and researchers of
Sociology, Contemporary Social Theory, Film Studies and Cultural
Studies.
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