Drive in Cinema - Marc James Léger

Drive in Cinema

Essays on Film, Theory and Politics
Buch | Softcover
308 Seiten
2015
Intellect Books (Verlag)
978-1-78320-485-4 (ISBN)
50,95 inkl. MwSt
In this book, Marc James Léger presents Žižek-influenced studies of films made by the most influential filmmakers of our time, including Jean-Luc Godard, Pier Paolo Pasolini, Werner Herzog, Alexander Kluge, William Klein, Jim Jarmusch, Hal Hartley, Harmony Korine and more. 
Drive in Cinema offers Žižek-influenced studies of films made by some of the most engaging and influential filmmakers of our time, from avant-garde directors Jean-Luc Godard, Werner Herzog, Alexander Kluge, Pier Paolo Pasolini and Vera Chytilová, to independent filmmakers William Klein, Oliver Ressler, Hal Hartley, Olivier Assayas, Vincent Gallo, Jim Jarmusch and Harmony Korine. These essays in critical cultural theory present interdisciplinary perspectives on the relations between art, film and politics. How does filmic symbolization mediate intersubjective social exchange? What are the possibilities for avant-gardism today and how does this correspond to what we know about cultural production after capitalism’s real subsumption of labour? How have various filmmakers communicated radical ideas through film as a popular medium? Drive in Cinema pursues Lacanian ethics to avenues beyond the academic obsession with cultural representation and cinematic technique. It will be of interest to anyone who is concerned with film’s potential as an emancipatory force.

Marc James Léger is an independent scholar living in Montreal. He is author of Brave New Avant Garde and the Neoliberal Undead, and is editor of Culture and Contestation in the New Century and The Idea of the Avant Garde – and What it Means Today.

Foreword: Revolution at the Drive-in by Bradley Tuck



Introduction: 1 + 1 + a



Chapter 1: Sad Bunny: Vincent Gallo and the Melancholia of Gender



Chapter 2: Drive in Cinema: The Dialectic of the Subject in Daisies and Who Wants to Kill Jessie?



Chapter 3: The Ghost Is a Shell



Chapter 4: Ecstatic Struggle in the World System: Werner Herzog’s Encounters at the End of the World



Chapter 5: Alexander Kluge’s News from Ideological Antiquity: Marx – Eisenstein – Das Kapital: A Conversation with Michael Blum and Barbara Clausen



Chapter 6: Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Obama (But Were Afraid to Ask Mr. Freedom)



Chapter 7: An Interview with Marc James Léger on Radical Politics, Cinema and the Future of the Avant Garde by Bradley Tuck



Chapter 8: Pasolini’s Contribution to La Rabbia as an Instance of Fantasmatic Realism



Chapter 9: Godard’s Film Socialisme: The Agency of Art in the Unconscious



Chapter 10: What Is to Be Done? with Spring Breakers



Chapter 11: Analytic Realism in Activist Film



Conclusion: Only Communists Left Alive

Verlagsort Bristol
Sprache englisch
Maße 178 x 229 mm
Gewicht 494 g
Themenwelt Kunst / Musik / Theater Film / TV
Sozialwissenschaften Politik / Verwaltung
ISBN-10 1-78320-485-0 / 1783204850
ISBN-13 978-1-78320-485-4 / 9781783204854
Zustand Neuware
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