Towards a Political Aesthetics of Cinema: The Outside of Film (1) (Film Culture in Transition)

By: Sulgi Lie

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Synopsis: Towards a Political Aesthetics of Cinema: The Outside of Film is a contribution to an aesthetics of cinema rooted in Marxist theory. Rather than focusing on the role that certain films, or the cinema as an institution, might play in political consciousness, the book asks a different question: how can the subject of politics in film be thought? This problem is presented in a systematic-theoretical rather than historical manner. The main aim of this book is a retrospective rehabilitation of the psychoanalytical concept of suture, whose political core is progressively revealed. In a second step, this rereading of suture-theory is mediated with the Marxist aesthetics of Fredric Jameson. From the perspective of this reconfigured aesthetics of negativity, films by Hitchcock, Antonioni, Haneke and Kubrick are analyzed as articulations of a political unconscious.

Book Quality:: Publisher Quality
Book Size:: 332 Pages
ISBN-13:: 9781040794609
Related ISBNs:: 9781003708421, 9781041189671, 9789462983632, 9781040779088
Publisher:: Taylor & Francis
Date of Addition:: 10/02/25
Copyrighted By:: The author / Taylor & Francis Group
Adult content:: No
Language:: English
Has Image Descriptions:: No
Categories:: History, Entertainment, Nonfiction, Art and Architecture, Social Studies, Philosophy, Politics and Government
Submitted By:: Bookshare Staff
Usage Restrictions:: This is a copyrighted book.
Translator:: Daniel Fairfax