Movies as Politics by Jonathan Rosenbaum 9780520918108 052091810X

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• ISBN 10: 052091810X
• ISBN 13: 9780520918108
• Author: Jonathan Rosenbaum

In this new collection of reviews and essays, Jonathan Rosenbaum focuses on the political and social dynamics of the contemporary movie scene. Rosenbaum, widely regarded as the most gifted contemporary American commentator on the cinema, explores the many links between film and our ideological identities as individuals and as a society. Readers will find revealing examinations of, for example, racial stereotyping in the debates surrounding Do the Right Thing, key films from Africa, China, Japan, and Taiwan, Hollywood musicals and French serials, and the cultural amnesia accompanying cinematic treatments of the Russian Revolution, the civil rights movement, and the Vietnam War. From Schindler’s List, Star Wars, Pulp Fiction, Forrest Gump, The Piano, and Ace Ventura: Pet Detective to the maverick careers of Orson Welles, Jacques Tati, Nicholas Ray, Chantal Akerman, Todd Haynes, and Andrei Tarkovsky, Rosenbaum offers a polemically pointed survey that makes clear the high stakes involved in every aspect of filmmaking and filmgoing.

Table contents:

How to Live in Air Conditioning

Language, Representation, Narrative

Utopian Space and Urban Encounters

Chance and Control

Classification and Genre: Musical Ghettos

Two / Entertainment as Oppression: The Hollywood Apparatus

Alternatives

Political Subjects

Other Cinemas

Alternate Histories

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