The Guattari effect
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Michael Moore and the rhetoric of documentary
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"Not afraid to tackle provocative topics in American culture, from gun violence and labor policies to terrorism and health care, Michael Moore has earned both applause and invective in his career as a documentarian. In such polarizing films as Bowling for Columbine, Fahrenheit 9…
Michael Moore and the rhetoric of documentary
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"Not afraid to tackle provocative topics in American culture, from gun violence and labor policies to terrorism and health care, Michael Moore has earned both applause and invective in his career as a documentarian. In such polarizing films as Bowling for Columbine, Fahrenheit 9…
Postcolonial cinema studies
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Cinema has long shaped not only how mass violence is perceived but also how it is performed. Today, when media coverage is central to the execution of terror campaigns and news anchormen serve as embedded journalists, a critical understanding of how the moving image is implicate…
Understanding film: marxist perspectives
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In 'Theses on Feuerbach', Marx writes 'The philosophers have only interpreted the world differently; the point is to change it.'. This collection examines how filmmakers have tried to change the world by engaging in emancipatory politics in their work, and how audiences have rec…
Explores the rise and fall of a tradition of cinematic literature which forms an intersection of the visual and the verbal, the political and the aesthetic.
The author casts the evolution of cinema as an ongoing struggle to relate audiences to their historical moment. Appreciating cinema's ability to bind concrete living conditions to individual experience, he reads films by Sergei Eisenstein and Pedro Almodóvar, by the New Objectiv…
Politics Goes to the Movies introduces the topic of political representation and ideology by analyzing some of the most important politically themed films across the history of cinema in a refreshing and concise volume. Offering a survey of political cinema from 1915 to present …
"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…
"Michael Chanan traces the history of the documentary from the first Lumiere films to Grierson and his contemporaries, through to Free Cinema, Cinema verite and Direct Cinema, up to the current resurgence of documentary with high profile films such as those of Michael Moore."--J…
"Michael Chanan traces the history of the documentary from the first Lumiere films to Grierson and his contemporaries, through to Free Cinema, Cinema verite and Direct Cinema, up to the current resurgence of documentary with high profile films such as those of Michael Moore."--J…
