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Towards a political aesthetics of cinema : the outside of film / Sulgi Lie ; translated by Daniel Fairfax.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Lie, Sulgi, author.
- Series:
- Film culture in transition.
- Film culture in transition
- Standardized Title:
- Aussenseite des Films. English
- Language:
- English
- German
- Subjects (All):
- Motion pictures--Aesthetics.
- Motion pictures.
- Motion pictures--Political aspetcs.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (329 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, 2020.
- Summary:
- 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.
- Contents:
- On enunciation in apparatus theory
- On enunciation without an enunciator : suture
- On the pragmatics of enunciation
- On the acousmatics of enunciation : back to the suture
- The political uncanny, or the return of the repressed : Cache
- The dialectics of mass culture
- Cartographies of the postmodern
- Geopolitical aesthetics
- The political uncanny, or the return of domination : The shining.
- Notes:
- Originally published as: Die Auβenseite des Films. Zur politischen Filmästhetik, Sulgi Lie.
- Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 20 Nov 2020).
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 1-003-70842-0
- 90-485-6164-7
- 90-485-3398-8
- 9781003708421
- OCLC:
- 1181773918
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