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Record Nr.

UNINA9910453447603321

Autore

Shapiro Michael J

Titolo

Cinematic geopolitics [[electronic resource] /] / Michael J. Shapiro

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York, : Routledge, 2009

ISBN

1-134-00207-6

1-281-83733-4

9786611837334

0-203-89200-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (190 p.)

Collana

Global horizons

Disciplina

791.43/6581

Soggetti

Motion pictures - Political aspects - United States

War films - United States - History and criticism

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [156]-171) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Figures; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1 The new violent cartography; 2 Preemption up close: Film and pax Americana; 3 Fogs of war; 4 The sublime today: Re-partitioning the global sensible; 5 Aesthetics of disintegration: Allegiance and intimacy in the former "Eastern bloc"; 6 Perpetual war?; Notes; Index

Sommario/riassunto

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 spa