Fredric Jameson and Film Theory
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Fredric Jameson and Film Theory

Marxism, Allegory, and Geopolitics in World Cinema

  1. 279 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Fredric Jameson and Film Theory

Marxism, Allegory, and Geopolitics in World Cinema

About this book

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!'.  

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright
  4. Dedication
  5. Contents
  6. Introduction: Always Historicize the Moving Image! Fredric Jameson’s Place in Film Studies
  7. 1. Feeling Film as the Pulse of the Postmodern Condition: On Jameson’s “On Diva”
  8. 2. Allegory and Accommodation: Vertov’s Three Songs of Lenin (1934) as a Stalinist Film
  9. 3. Nostalgia, Melancholy, and the Persistence of Stalin in Polish Cinema
  10. 4. Jameson, Angelopoulos, and the Spirit of Utopia
  11. 5. Jameson and Japanese Media Theory: A Virtual Dialogue
  12. 6. Where Jameson Meets Queer Theory: Queer Cognitive Mapping in 1990s Sinophone Cinema
  13. 7. A Jamesonian Reading of Parasite (2019): Homes, Real Estate Speculation, and Bubble Markets in Seoul
  14. 8. Strategies of Containment in Middle-Class Films from Mexico and Brazil
  15. 9. The Neoliberal Conspiracy: Jameson, New Hollywood, and All the President’s Men
  16. 10. The Conspiracy Film, Hollywood’s Cultural Paradigms, and Class Consciousness
  17. 11. A Theory of the Medium Shot: Affective Mapping and the Logic of the Encounter in Fredric Jameson’s The Geopolitical Aesthetic
  18. 12. “An American Utopia” and the Politics of Military Science Fiction
  19. Afterword
  20. Acknowledgments
  21. Notes on Contributors
  22. Index