Cinematic Geopolitics

Cinematic Geopolitics
Author: Michael J. Shapiro
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 190
Release: 2008-10-27
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 1134002076

"The new violent cartographies -- Preemption up close : film and Pax Americana -- Fogs of war -- The sublime today : re-partitioning the global sensible -- Aesthetics of disintegration : allegiance and intimacy in the former "Eastern bloc"--Perpetual war?"

Cinema and Popular Geo-politics

Cinema and Popular Geo-politics
Author: Marcus Power
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 222
Release: 2013-09-13
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1317999185

With a detailed range of approaches, this new collection investigates how cinematic narratives can and have been used to portray different political 'threats' and 'dangers'. Including a range of chapters with a contemporary focus, it studies issues such as: how the geopolitical world has been constructed through film how cinema can provide explanatory narratives in periods of cultural and political anxiety, uneasiness and uncertainty. Examining the ways in which film impacts upon popular understandings of national identity and the changing geopolitical world, the book looks at how audiences make sense of the (geo)political messages and meanings contained within a variety of films - from the US productions of Hollywood, to Palestinian, Mexican, British, and German cinematic traditions. This thought-provoking book draws on an international range of contributions to discuss and fully investigate world cinema in light of key contemporary issues. This book was previously published as a special issue of Geopolitics.

Film Festivals

Film Festivals
Author: Marijke de Valck
Publisher: Leiden University Press
Total Pages: 288
Release: 2007
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN:

The first comprehensive study of film festivals that marks key historical moments and offers surprising insights into the workings of a highly influentiual cultural network

Popular Geopolitics and Nation Branding in the Post-Soviet Realm

Popular Geopolitics and Nation Branding in the Post-Soviet Realm
Author: Robert A. Saunders
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 281
Release: 2016-07-07
Genre: Science
ISBN: 131756989X

This seminal book explores the complex relationship between popular geopolitics and nation branding among the Newly Independent States of Eurasia, and their combined role in shaping contemporary national image and statecraft within and beyond the region. It provides critical perspectives on international relations, nationalism, and national identity through the use of innovative approaches focusing on popular culture, new media, public diplomacy, and alternative "narrators" of the nation. By positing popular geopolitics and nation branding as contentious forces and complementary flows, the study explores the tensions and elisions between national self-image and external perceptions of the nation, and how this complex interplay has become integral to contemporary global affairs.

The Romanian Cinema of Nationalism

The Romanian Cinema of Nationalism
Author: Onoriu Colăcel
Publisher: McFarland
Total Pages: 219
Release: 2018-10-10
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 1476631018

Prior to the collapse of communism, Romanian historical movies were political, encouraging nationalistic feelings and devotion to the state. Vlad the Impaler and other such iconic figures emerged as heroes rather than loathsome bloodsuckers, celebrating a shared sense of belonging. The past decade has, however, presented Romanian films in which ordinary people are the stars--heroes, go-getters, swindlers and sore losers. The author explores a wide selection, old and new, of films set in the Romanian past.

Cinematic Thinking

Cinematic Thinking
Author: James Phillips
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Total Pages: 216
Release: 2008
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 9780804758000

This anthology of philosophical essays explores the interpersonal and political contexts in and against which the films of ten major postwar filmmakers were made.

Surveillance Cinema

Surveillance Cinema
Author: Catherine Zimmer
Publisher: NYU Press
Total Pages: 286
Release: 2015-04-03
Genre: Law
ISBN: 1479864374

In Paris, a static video camera keeps watch on a bourgeois home. In Portland, a webcam documents the torture and murder of kidnap victims. And in clandestine intelligence offices around the world, satellite technologies relentlessly pursue the targets of global conspiracies. Such plots represent only a fraction of the surveillance narratives that have become commonplace in recent cinema. Catherine Zimmer examines how technology and ideology have come together in cinematic form to play a functional role in the politics of surveillance. Drawing on the growing field of surveillance studies and the politics of contemporary monitoring practices, she demonstrates that screen narrative has served to organize political, racial, affective, and even material formations around and through surveillance. She considers how popular culture forms are intertwined with the current political landscape in which the imagery of anxiety, suspicion, war, and torture has become part of daily life. From Enemy of the State and The Bourne Series to Saw, Caché and Zero Dark Thirty, Surveillance Cinema explores in detail the narrative tropes and stylistic practices that characterize contemporary films and television series about surveillance.

Popular Geopolitics

Popular Geopolitics
Author: Robert A. Saunders
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 300
Release: 2018-04-27
Genre: Science
ISBN: 1351205013

This book brings together scholars from across a variety of academic disciplines to assess the current state of the subfield of popular geopolitics. It provides an archaeology of the field, maps the flows of various frameworks of analysis into (and out of) popular geopolitics, and charts a course forward for the discipline. It explores the real-world implications of popular culture, with a particular focus on the evolving interdisciplinary nature of popular geopolitics alongside interrelated disciplines including media, cultural, and gender studies.

Politicised Cinema

Politicised Cinema
Author: Miia Huttunen
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 165
Release: 2022-01-31
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 100053412X

Politicised Cinema demonstrates how taking a collection of seemingly apolitical films and using them as an instrument for serving explicit political aims can be used as a force for good. Through an analysis of Orient: A Survey of Films Produced in Countries of Arab and Asian Culture, a film catalogue published by UNESCO and the BFI in 1959 to promote intercultural understanding between the East and the West, this book argues for the importance of studying the ways the interpretation of films can be guided to serve a specific political agenda, even when the films themselves were originally produced with very different aims in mind. The author focuses on how the catalogue positions culture and its cinematic representations as a marker of difference between the Eastern and Western worlds, and shows that even major cultural conflicts such as the Cold War and the decolonisation process can be reframed in service of UNESCO’s cultural diplomatic agenda. The book explores the ways in which the catalogue of Eastern films deemed suitable for Western audiences became a weapon to fight against prejudice, intolerance, and bigotry in a politicised battle over dismantling the proclaimed link between difference and conflict. This book will be of interest to students, researchers, and academics in visual politics, cinematic international relations, cultural diplomacy, global governance, and international cultural politics, as well as film studies, Asian studies, and cultural studies. In addition, policymakers and practitioners in the fields of cultural diplomacy and cultural policy will find the empirical case study to be of use in practical work.