Fredric Jameson and Film Theory : : Marxism, Allegory, and Geopolitics in World Cinema / / ed. by Michael Cramer, Keith B. Wagner, Jeremi Szaniawski.

Frederic Jameson and Film Theory is the first collection of its kind, it assesses and critically responds to Fredric Jameson’s remarkable contribution to film theory. The essays assembled explore key Jamesonian concepts—such as totality, national allegory, geopolitics, globalization, representation,...

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Place / Publishing House:New Brunswick, NJ : : Rutgers University Press, , [2022]
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Year of Publication:2022
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (264 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Introduction: Always Historicize the Moving Image! Fredric Jameson’s Place in Film Studies
  • 1 Feeling Film as the Pulse of the Postmodern Condition: On Jameson’s “On Diva”
  • 2 Allegory and Accommodation: Vertov’s Three Songs of Lenin (1934) as a Stalinist Film
  • 3 Nostalgia, Melancholy, and the Persistence of Stalin in Polish Cinema
  • 4 Jameson, Angelopoulos, and the Spirit of Utopia
  • 5 Jameson and Japanese Media Theory: A Virtual Dialogue
  • 6 Where Jameson Meets Queer Theory: Queer Cognitive Mapping in 1990s Sinophone Cinema
  • 7 A Jamesonian Reading of Parasite (2019): Homes, Real Estate Speculation, and Bubble Markets in Seoul
  • 8 Strategies of Containment in Middle-Class Films from Mexico and Brazil
  • 9 The Neoliberal Conspiracy: Jameson, New Hollywood, and All the President’s Men
  • 10 The Conspiracy Film, Hollywood’s Cultural Paradigms, and Class Consciousness
  • 11 A Theory of the Medium Shot: Affective Mapping and the Logic of the Encounter in Fredric Jameson’s The Geopolitical Aesthetic
  • 12 “An American Utopia” and the Politics of Military Science Fiction
  • Afterword
  • Acknowledgments
  • Notes on Contributors
  • Index