Democracy and Difference Through the Aesthetics of Film
Author: Richard Tahvildaran-Jesswein
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Published: 2010-08-26
Total Pages: 144
ISBN-13: 9780757579578
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Author: Richard Tahvildaran-Jesswein
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Published: 2010-08-26
Total Pages: 144
ISBN-13: 9780757579578
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Kendall Hunt Publishing Company
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Published: 2014-09-24
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ISBN-13: 9781465265791
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Richard A. Tahvildaran-Jesswein
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Published: 1999
Total Pages: 508
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Morton Schoolman
Publisher: Duke University Press
Published: 2020-04-03
Total Pages: 205
ISBN-13: 1478009055
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn A Democratic Enlightenment Morton Schoolman proposes aesthetic education through film as a way to redress the political violence inflicted on difference that society constructs as its racialized, gendered, Semitic, and sexualized other. Drawing on Voltaire, Diderot, and Schiller, Schoolman reconstructs the genealogical history of what he calls the reconciliation image—a visual model of a democratic ideal of reconciliation he then theorizes through Whitman's prose and poetry and Adorno's aesthetic theory. Analyzing The Help (2011) and Gentleman's Agreement (1947), Schoolman shows how film produces a more advanced image of reconciliation than those originally created by modernist artworks. Each film depicts violence toward racial and ethnic difference while also displaying a reconciliation image that aesthetically educates the public about how the violence of constructing difference as otherness can be overcome. Mounting a democratic enlightenment, the reconciliation image in film illuminates a possible politics for challenging the rise of nationalism's violence toward differences in all their diversity.
Author: Patrick McGee
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1997-08-14
Total Pages: 256
ISBN-13: 9780521589086
DOWNLOAD EBOOKMcGee explores the political significance of aesthetic analysis in the context of cultural studies, and asks how political responsibility can be reconciled with the concept of the university as a democratic institution.
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Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2020-11-30
Total Pages: 200
ISBN-13: 9004439552
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA sociological research on the current “narrations” of the crisis reflected by media and the relation between political discourses and popular myths, consists a revealing study of the dominant social representations worldwide. The real inequalities are counterbalanced by cultural industries’ “fairytales”.
Author: Mark Sachleben
Publisher: Peter Lang
Published: 2004
Total Pages: 364
ISBN-13: 9780820462486
DOWNLOAD EBOOKSachleben (political science, Western New England College) and Yenerall (political science, Clarion U.) hope to "tap into the appeal of movies and television" in order to raise interest in politics and illuminate features of contemporary political debates. Topically arranging their material into chapters covering liberal and alternative ideologies, the American presidency, civil rights and social justice, campaigns and elections, and war, the authors typically offer brief discussion of the broad outlines of their topic, summarize some plots or plot points of movie or television show, and then point towards its political relevance. Annotation 2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com).
Author: Sulgi Lie
Publisher: Amsterdam University Press
Published: 2020-07-08
Total Pages: 334
ISBN-13: 9048533988
DOWNLOAD EBOOKTowards 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.
Author: Joshua Foa Dienstag
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Published: 2016-07-14
Total Pages: 239
ISBN-13: 178499779X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis electronic version has been made available under a Creative Commons (BY-NC-ND) open access license. In the lead essay for this volume, Joshua Foa Dienstag engages in a critical encounter with the work of Stanley Cavell on cinema, focusing skeptical attention on the claims made for the contribution of cinema to the ethical character of democratic life. In this debate, Dienstag mirrors the celebrated dialogue between Rousseau and Jean D'Alembert on theatre, casting Cavell as D'Alembert in his view that we can learn to become better citizens and better people by observing a staged representation of human life, with Dienstag arguing, with Rousseau, that this misunderstands the relationship between original and copy, even more so in the medium of film than in the medium of theatre. Dienstag's provocative and stylish essay is debated by an exceptional group of interlocutors comprising Clare Woodford, Tracy B. Strong, Margaret Kohn, Davide Panagia and Thomas Dumm. The volume closes with a robust response from Dienstag to his critics.
Author: Jennifer Lynde Barker
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2012-11-12
Total Pages: 304
ISBN-13: 113622744X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThrough a series of detailed film case histories ranging from The Great Dictator to Hiroshima mon amour to The Lives of Others, The Aesthetics of Antifascist Film: Radical Projection explores the genesis and recurrence of antifascist aesthetics as it manifests in the WWII, Cold War and Post-Wall historical periods. Emerging during a critical moment in film history—1930s/1940s Hollywood— cinematic antifascism was representative of the international nature of antifascist alliances, with the amalgam of film styles generated in émigré Hollywood during the WWII period reflecting a dialogue between an urgent political commitment to antifascism and an equally intense commitment to aesthetic complexity. Opposed to a fascist aesthetics based on homogeneity, purity and spectacle, these antifascist films project a radical beauty of distortion, heterogeneity, fragmentation and loss. By juxtaposing documentation and the modernist techniques of surrealism and expressionism, the filmmakers were able to manifest a non-totalizing work of art that still had political impact. Drawing on insights from film and cultural studies, aesthetic and ethical philosophy, and socio-political theory, this book argues that the artistic struggles with political commitment and modernist strategies of representation during the 1930s and 40s resulted in a distinctive, radical aesthetic form that represents an alternate strand of post-modernism.