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International Politics and Film
Film Theory
For Sale Throughout the World
Space, Vision, Power
Creating a Cinematic Grammar
Sean Carter and Klaus Dodds
Felicity Colman
International Politics and Film introduces readers to the representational qualities of film but also draws attention to how the relationship between the visual and the spatial is constitutive of international politics. Using four themes—borders, the state of exception, homeland, and distant others—the study particularly highlights the territorial and imaginative dimensions of international affairs while also making clear that international politics is not just something that is “out there.” Film helps us better understand how the subject is part of everyday life within the state, affecting individuals and communities in different ways depending on axes of difference, such as gender, race, class, age, and ethnicity.
Film Theory addresses the core concepts and arguments used by academics, critical film theorists, and filmmakers, and includes the work of Dudley Andrew, Raymond Bellour, Mary Ann Doane, Miriam Hansen, bell hooks, Siegfried Kracauer, Raul Ruiz, P. Adams Sitney, Bernard Stiegler, and Pier Paolo Pasolini. The volume treats film theory as a form of writing that produces a unique cinematic grammar applicable to a wide range of media forms. By creating authorial trends, identifying the technology of cinema as a creative force, and producing films as aesthetic markers, film theories contribute an epistemological resource that connects the technologies of filmmaking and film composition. This book explores these links through film theorizations of the diagrammatization (the systems, methodologies, concepts, histories) of cinematic matters.
Sean Carter
is senior lecturer in human geography at the
University of Exeter. Klaus Dodds
is professor of geopolitics at Royal
Holloway, University of London, and coeditor of Polar
Felicity Colman
Geopolitics: Knowledges, Legal Regimes, and Resources.
chester School of Art, Manchester Metropolitan University,
is reader in screen media at the Man-
and editor of Film, Theory, and Philosophy: The Key Thinkers.
$20.00 / £14.00 paper 978-0-231-16971-4 $19.99 / £14.00 ebook 978-0-231-85059-9
$20.00 / £14.00 paper 978-0-231-16973-8 $19.99 / £14.00 ebook 978-0-231-85060-5
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