Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Introduction. The Land beyond Cinema: Television and Utopian Method -- 1. The Promise of Television: Making Utopia Possible -- 2. Television as Enlightenment: Roberto Rossellini's History Lessons -- 3. Inform, Educate, and…
As beautifully written as it is theoretically rigorous, 'Utopian Television' turns to the writing of Fredric Jameson and Ernst Bloch in treating the three directors' television experiments as enactments of 'utopia as method.' In doing so it reveals the extent to which the medium…
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, globaliz…