Fredric Jameson and Film Theory: Marxism, Allegory, and Geopolitics in World Cinema

By: Dudley Andrew and John Mackay and Paul Coates and Pansy Duncan and Naoki Yamamoto and Keith B. Wagner and Michael Cramer and Mercedes Vazquez and Alvin K. Wong and Dan Hassler-Forest and Mike Wayne and Jeremi Szaniawski and Fredric Jameson

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Synopsis: 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, and pastiche—and his historical schema of realism, modernism, and postmodernism, considering, in both cases, how these can be applied, revised, expanded and challenged within film studies. Featuring essays by leading and emerging voices in the field, the volume probes the contours and complexities of neoliberal capitalism across the globe and explores world cinema's situation within these forces by deploying and adapting Jamesonian concepts, and placing them in dialogue with other theoretical paradigms. The result is an innovative and rigorously analytical effort that offers a range of Marxist-inspired approaches towards cinemas from Asia, Latin America, Europe, and North America in the spirit of Jameson's famous rallying cry: 'always historicize!'.

Book Quality:: Publisher Quality
ISBN-13:: 9781978808881
Related ISBNs:: 9781978808867, 9781978808874
Publisher:: Rutgers University Press
Date of Addition:: 01/14/22
Copyrighted By:: Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
Adult content:: No
Language:: English
Has Image Descriptions:: No
Categories:: History, Entertainment, Nonfiction, Art and Architecture, Literature and Fiction, Social Studies, Language Arts, Philosophy, Politics and Government
Submitted By:: Bookshare Staff
Usage Restrictions:: This is a copyrighted book.
Edited by:: Keith B. Wagner
Edited by:: Jeremi Szaniawski
Edited by:: Michael Cramer