Cinematic Political Thought: (Taking on the Political) - Narrating Race, Nation and Gender

Michael Shapiro

NYU Press

1999

192 páginas

6h 24m

ISBN-13: 9780814797501

In Cinematic Political Thought, Michael J. Shapiro investigates aspects of contemporary politics and articulates a critical philosophical perspective with politically disposed treatments of contemporary cinema. Reading such films as Hoop Dreams, Lone Star, Father of the Bride II and To Live and Die in LA through the lens of Deleuze, Derrida, Foucault and Lyotard, Shapiro demonstrates what it can mean to think the political both in terms of cinema studies and in wider aesthetic and social contexts.