The Cinematic Political

The Cinematic Political Film Composition as Political Theory

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Publisher's Synopsis

In this book, Michael J. Shapiro stages a series of pedagogical encounters between political theory, represented as a compositional challenge, and cinematic texts, emphasizing how to achieve an effective research paper/essay by heeding the compositional strategies of films. The text's distinctiveness is its focus on the intermediation between two textual genres. It is aimed at providing both a conceptual introduction to the politics of aesthetics and a guide to writing strategies. In its illustrations of encounters between political theory and cinema, the book's critical edge is its emphasis on how to intervene in cinematic texts with innovative conceptual frames in ways that challenge dominant understandings of life worlds.

The Cinematic Political is designed as a teaching resource that introduces students to the relationship between film form and political thinking. With diverse illustrative investigations, the book instructs students on how to watch films with an eye toward writing a research paper in which a film (or set of films) constitutes the textual vehicle for political theorizing.

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Book information

ISBN: 9781138596177
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Imprint: Routledge
Pub date:
DEWEY: 791.436581
DEWEY edition: 23
Language: English
Number of pages: 256
Weight: 374g
Height: 155mm
Width: 227mm
Spine width: 15mm