The Geopolitical Aesthetic: Cinema and Space in the World System (Perspectives) - Softcover

Jameson, Fredric R.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0253209668 ISBN 13: 9780253209665

Publisher: Indiana University Press, 1995

Synopsis

The Geopolitical Aesthetic "The Geopolitical Aesthetic is a dazzling... distillation and application of the theoretical system he first presented in The Political Unconscious (1981)." --The San Francisco Bay Guardian Taking contemporary films from the United States, Russia, Taiwan, France, and the Philippines, The Geopolitical Aesthetic offers a reading of some of the most interesting films of the last decade and a general ... Full description

About this title

From the Author:

FREDRIC JAMESON is Distinguished Professor of Comparative Literature at Duke University, where he directs the Graduate Program in Literature. His numerous published works include Signatures of the Visible, The Concept of Postmodernism, and Late Marxism: Adorno on the Persistence of the Dialectic.

From the Back Cover:

One of the great excitement of this book is the way that the perspective it obtains enables an entirely fresh look at the whole question of film, and politics. What Jameson suggests is that we must now analyze film comparatively-that we can only understand a films politics when we place it both in its local political context and its global context as film-for any film will inevitably reflect on what one might call its place in the global distribution of cultural power.

About this edition

• Publisher: Indiana University Press
• Publication date: 1995
• ISBN 10: 0253209668
• ISBN 13: 9780253209665
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 240