Towards a Political Aesthetics of Cinema : The Outside of Film
by
Sulgi Lie
Book Details
Format
Hardback or Cased Book
Book Series
Film Culture in Transition
ISBN-10
9462983631
ISBN-13
9789462983632
Publisher
Amsterdam University Press
Imprint
Amsterdam University Press
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Aug 3rd, 2020
Print length
332 Pages
Weight
666 grams
Dimensions
16.20 x 24.20 x 2.40 cms
Product Classification:
Film theory & criticismMedia studiesPolitical science & theoryMarxism & Communism
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Towards a Political Aesthetics of Cinema: The Outside of Film is a contribution to an aesthetics of cinema rooted in Marxist theory. Rather than focusing on the role that certain films, or the cinema as an institution, might play in political consciousness, the book asks a different question: how can the subject of politics in film be thought? This problem is presented in a systematic-theoretical rather than historical manner. The main aim of this book is a retrospective rehabilitation of the psychoanalytical concept of "suture," whose political core is progressively revealed. In a second step, this rereading of "suture"-theory is mediated with the Marxist aesthetics of Fredric Jameson. From the perspective of this reconfigured aesthetics of negativity, films by Hitchcock, Antonioni, Haneke and Kubrick are analyzed as articulations of a political unconscious.
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