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Title Fredric Jameson and film theory : Marxism, allegory, and geopolitics in world cinema / edited by Keith B. Wagner, Jeremi Szaniawski, and Michael Cramer ; afterword by Fredric Jameson
Edition First edition
Published New Brunswick : Rutgers University Press, [2022]
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Description 1 online resource (viii, 268 pages)
Contents Introduction: Always historicize the moving image! : Fredric Jameson's place in film studies / Michael Cramer, Jeremi Szaniawski, Keith B. Wagner -- Feeling film as the pulse of the postmodern condition : on Jameson's "On Diva" / Dudley Andrew -- Allegory and accommodation : Vertov's Three songs of Lenin (1934) as a Stalinist film / John MacKay -- Nostalgia, melancholy, and the persistence of Stalin in Polish cinema / Jeremi Szaniawski -- Jameson, Angelopoulos and the spirit of utopia / Paul Coates -- Jameson and Japanese media theory : a virtual dialogue / Naoki Yamamoto -- Where Jameson meets queer theory : queer cognitive mapping in 1990s Sinophone cinema / Alvin K. Wong -- A Jamesonian reading of Parasite (2019) : homes, real estate speculation, and bubble markets in Seoul / Keith B. Wagner -- Strategies of containment in middle-class films from Mexico and Brazil / Mercedes Vázquez -- The neoliberal conspiracy : Jameson, new Hollywood, and All the president's men / Michael Cramer -- The conspiracy film, Hollywood's cultural paradigms and class consciousness / Mike Wayne -- A theory of the medium shot : affective mapping and the logic of the encounter in Fredric Jameson's The geopolitical aesthetic / Pansy Duncan -- "An American utopia" and the politics of military science fiction / Dan Hassler-Forest -- Afterword / Fredric Jameson
Summary 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!'
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Print version record
Subject Jameson, Fredric -- Criticism and interpretation
SUBJECT Jameson, Fredric fast
Subject Motion pictures -- Philosophy
Marxist criticism.
Geopolitics in motion pictures.
Philosophers -- United States -- Biography
PERFORMING ARTS / General.
Geopolitics in motion pictures
Marxist criticism
Motion pictures -- Philosophy
Philosophers
United States
Genre/Form Biographies
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Form Electronic book
Author Wagner, Keith B., 1978- editor, contributor.
Szaniawski, Jeremi, editor, contributor.
Cramer, Michael, 1981- editor, contributor.
Jameson, Fredric, writer of afterword.
Andrew, Dudley, 1945- contributor.
MacKay, John (John Kenneth), contributor.
Coates, Paul, 1953- contributor.
Duncan, Pansy, contributor.
Yamamoto, Naoki, 1977- contributor.
Vázquez Vázquez, María Mercedes, contributor.
Wong, Alvin K., contributor.
ISBN 1978808909
9781978808904