Cinematic Political Thought : : Narrating Race, Nation and Gender / / Michael Shapiro.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Edinburgh University Press Archive eBook-Package Pre-2000
• VerfasserIn: Shapiro, Michael,
• Place / Publishing House: Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2022]; ©1999
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Series: Taking on the Political : TAPO
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (192 p.)

This book has two aims: to offer a series of investigations into aspects of contemporary politics such as race, nation and gender; and to articulate a critical philosophical perspective with politically disposed treatments of contemporary cinema. What the author offers is a politics of critique, inspired by Kant, in which he attempts to show what it can mean to think the political. The interventions into aspects of contemporary political issues, as reflected in films including Hoop Dreams, Lonestar, Father of the Bride II , The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert, and To Live and Die in LA, are also influenced by Deleuze, Derrida, Foucault and Lyotard: theorists loosely regarded by the author as post-Kantian. This is a polemical work, aimed at encouraging critical, ethico-political thinking. Its breadth of theoretical scope and empirical reference, and the innovative style of presentation will make it vital reading for all those with an interest in the linking of culture and politics.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- 1 Towards a Politics of Now-Time: Reading Hoop Dreams with Kubrick's Barry Lyndon -- 2 Narrating the Nation, Unwelcoming the Stranger -- 3 The Politics of 'Globalization' -- 4 Value Eruptions and Modalities: The Politics of Masculinity -- Index