In 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 festival's, Michael J. Shapiro's 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 book's
chapters examines a range of films from established classics like
the Deer Hunter and the Battle of Algiers to contemporary films
such as Dirty Pretty Things and the Fog of War. Shapiro's use of
philosophical and theoretical works makes this cutting edge
examination of film and politics essential reading for all students
and scholars with an interest in film and politics.
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