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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 festivalвЂTMs, Michael J. ShapiroвЂTMs 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 bookвЂTMs 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__. ShapiroвЂTMs use of philosophical and theoretical works makes this cutting

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Author

Michael J. Shapiro

Publisher

Routledge

Published

2008

Language

EN

ISBN

9780203892008

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

History, Political Science, Sports