Overview

The Routledge Companion to Cinema and Politics brings together forty essays by leading film scholars and filmmakers in order to discuss the complex relationship between cinema and politics. Organised into eight sections - Approaches to Film and Politics; Film, Activism and Opposition; Film, Propaganda, Ideology and the State; The Politics of Mobility; Political Hollywood; Alternative and Independent Film and Politics; The Politics of Cine-geographies and The Politics of Documentary - this collection covers a broad range of topics, including: third cinema, cinema after 9/11, eco-activism, human rights, independent Chinese documentary, film festivals, manifestoes, film policies, film as a response to the post-2008 financial crisis, Soviet propaganda, the impact of neoliberalism on cinema, and many others. It foregrounds the key debates, concepts, approaches and case studies that critique and explain the complex relationship between politics and cinema, discussing films from around the world and including examples from film history as well as contemporary cinema. It also explores the wider relationship between politics and entertainment, examines cinema’s response to political and social transformations and questions the extent to which filmmaking, itself, is a political act.

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Author:   Yannis Tzioumakis (University of Liverpool, UK) ,  Claire Molloy (Edge Hill University, UK)
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Weight:   1.214kg
ISBN:  

9780415717397

ISBN 10:   0415717396
Pages:   528
Publication Date:   30 June 2016
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  Undergraduate
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

"Introduction Claire Molloy and Yannis Tzioumakis Part 1 Approaches to Film and Politics Introduction Philip Drake Chapter 1 The Dialectics of Third Cinema Mike Wayne Chapter 2 Geopolitics and Cinema Toby Miller Chapter 3 Ecopolitics and Cinema Sean Cubitt Chapter 4 The Politics of Form: A Conceptual Introduction to ‘Screen Theory’ Warren Buckland Chapter 5 Revisiting the Political Economy of Film Janet Wasko Part 2 Film, Activism and Opposition Introduction Anthony Killick Chapter 6 ""New"" New Latin American Cinema Manifestoes Scott L. Baugh Chapter 7 Animal Rights Films, Organized Violence, and the Politics of Sight Anat Pick Chapter 8 Reel News in the Digital Age: Framing Britain’s Radical Video-activists Steve Presence Chapter 9 Film and the Politics of Working Class Representation: The Inside Film Project Deirdre O’Neill Chapter 10 Kony 2012: Anatomy of A Campaign Video and A Video Campaign Leshu Torchin Part 3 Film, Propaganda, Ideology and the State Introduction Claire Molloy Chapter 11 Propaganda, Activism and Environmental Nostalgia Claire Molloy Chapter 12 Between ""Information"" and ""Inspiration"": The Office of War Information, Frank Capra’s Why We Fight series and US World War II Propaganda Gregory Frame Chapter 13 Striving for the Maximum Appeal: Ideology and Propaganda in the Soviet Cinema of the 1920s and 1930s Panayiota Mini Chapter 14 ‘Victory doesn’t always Look the Way other People Imagine It.’ Post-conflict Cinema in Northern Ireland Stephen Baker Chapter 15 Film Policy and England: The Politics of Creativity Paul Dave Part 4 The Politics of Mobility Introduction Stephanie Hemelryk Donald Chapter 16 Cosmopolitanism, Empathy and the Close-up Dimitris Eleftheriotis Chapter 17 Regurgitated Bodies: Presenting and Representing Trauma in The Act of Killing Lúcia Nagib Chapter 18 After Dispossession: Blackfella Films and the Politics of Radical Hope Felicity Collins Chapter 19 The Holocaust Documentary: Sense, Meaning and Redemptive Politics Brad Prager Chapter 20 A Bridge over Troubled Water? Loving Jews and Muslims in Two Recent Mediterranean Films Yosefa Loshitsky Part 5 Political Hollywood Introduction Brian Neve Chapter 21 Social Apocalypse in Contemporary Hollywood Film Douglas Kellner Chapter 22 Reassertions of Hollywood Heroic Agency in the Iraq War Film Geoff King Chapter 23 Spectacle vs. Narrative: Action Political Movies in the New Millennium Ian Scott Chapter 24 Representing 9/11 in Hollywood cinema Eleftheria Thanouli Chapter 25 Reaganite Cinema: What a Feeling! Gary Needham Part 6 Alternative and Independent Film and Politics Introduction Yannis Tzioumakis Chapter 26 Film Festivals: Mediating the Mainstream and Marginal Voices Marijke de Valck Chapter 27 Politics, ‘Indie-Style’: Political Filmmaking and Contemporary US Independent Cinema Yannis Tzioumakis Chapter 28 Dismantling the System from Within: The Early Films of Robert Altman and the Politics of Anti-Establishment Jacqui Miller Chapter 29 Ethical Time, Ethical History: Recent Israeli Film Nurith Gertz Chapter 30 The Way of Seeming Rob Nilsson Part 7 The Politics of Cine-geographies Introduction Ewa Mazierska Chapter 31 African Cinema in an Age of Postcolonialism and Globalization Kenneth Harrow Chapter 32 Nationalist Geopolitics and Film Tourism in India's Hindi Cinema Peter C. Pugsley Chapter 33 Political Cinema in Latin America: From Nation-building to Cultural Translation Armida de la Garza Chapter 34 European Cinema: Spectator- or Spect-actor-driven Policies Petar Mitric and Katharine Sarikakis Chapter 35 Minor Cinema – The Case of Wales Ruth McElroy Part 8 The Politics of Documentary Introduction John Corner Chapter 36 21st Century Political Documentary in the United States Betsy A. McLane Chapter 37 Documenting Dissent: Political Documentary in the People’s Republic of China Luke Robinson Chapter 38 Politics and Independence: Documentary in Greece during the Crisis Lydia Papadimitriou Chapter 39 Secret City (2012) A Reception Diary Michael Chanan and Lee Salter Chapter 40 Interactive Documentary: Film and Politics in the Digital Era James Lyons"

Reviews

‘With its epic scope, this daring book expands the equation of cinema and politics into a more dynamic, complex, multi-layered international terrain through the lenses of theories, activism, propaganda, ideology, the state, mobility, Hollywood, alternative film, documentaries, cine-geographies, digitalities, and practices. A staggering, field-defining achievement, Cinema and Politics blasts open any reductionist correlation between the two terms with a necessary, urgent, and compelling polyphonic approach entailing multiple methodologies and theoretical locations. This important volume recalibrates the terms cinema and political by ruthlessly and brilliantly multiplying theories and arguments.’ Patricia R. Zimmermann, Professor of Screen Studies, Ithaca College, New York, USA ‘Cinema could matter more for understanding politics than usually acknowledged, especially when one takes into account that it travels beyond national borders. After all, so many films are made out of political concerns. And so many political matters — migrations, trafficking, trauma, genocide — are best tackled through the medium of cinema. This volume brings together essays by some of the finest writers who discuss film in a way that can be adopted across a range of disciplines, from political science and international relations through to sustainable development and tourism studies.’ Dina Iordanova, Professor of Global Cinema and Creative Cultures and Director of the Institute for Global Cinema and Creative Cultures, University of St Andrews

`With its epic scope, this daring book expands the equation of cinema and politics into a more dynamic, complex, multi-layered international terrain through the lenses of theories, activism, propaganda, ideology, the state, mobility, Hollywood, alternative film, documentaries, cine-geographies, digitalities, and practices. A staggering, field-defining achievement, Cinema and Politics blasts open any reductionist correlation between the two terms with a necessary, urgent, and compelling polyphonic approach entailing multiple methodologies and theoretical locations. This important volume recalibrates the terms cinema and political by ruthlessly and brilliantly multiplying theories and arguments.' Patricia R. Zimmermann, Professor of Screen Studies, Ithaca College, New York, USA `Cinema could matter more for understanding politics than usually acknowledged, especially when one takes into account that it travels beyond national borders. After all, so many films are made out of political concerns. Andã so many political matters - migrations, trafficking, trauma, genocide - are best tackled through the medium of cinema.ã This volume brings together essays by some of the finest writers who discuss film in a way that can be adopted across a range of disciplines, from political science and international relations through to sustainable development and tourism studies.' Dina Iordanova, Professor of Global Cinema and Creative Cultures and Director of the Institute for Global Cinema and Creative Cultures, University of St Andrews

'With its epic scope, this daring book expands the equation of cinema and politics into a more dynamic, complex, multi-layered international terrain through the lenses of theories, activism, propaganda, ideology, the state, mobility, Hollywood, alternative film, documentaries, cine-geographies, digitalities, and practices. A staggering, field-defining achievement, Cinema and Politics blasts open any reductionist correlation between the two terms with a necessary, urgent, and compelling polyphonic approach entailing multiple methodologies and theoretical locations. This important volume recalibrates the terms cinema and political by ruthlessly and brilliantly multiplying theories and arguments.' Patricia R. Zimmermann, Professor of Screen Studies, Ithaca College, New York, USA 'Cinema could matter more for understanding politics than usually acknowledged, especially when one takes into account that it travels beyond national borders. After all, so many films are made out of political concerns. And so many political matters - migrations, trafficking, trauma, genocide - are best tackled through the medium of cinema. This volume brings together essays by some of the finest writers who discuss film in a way that can be adopted across a range of disciplines, from political science and international relations through to sustainable development and tourism studies.' Dina Iordanova, Professor of Global Cinema and Creative Cultures and Director of the Institute for Global Cinema and Creative Cultures, University of St Andrews

Author Information

Yannis Tzioumakis is Senior Lecturer in Communication and Media Studies at the University of Liverpool. He is the author and editor of six books, most recently of Hollywood’s Indies: Classics Divisions, Specialty Labels and the American Film Market (2012). He is also co-editor of the ‘Hollywood Centenary’ and the ‘Cinema and Youth Cultures’ book series (both for Routledge). Claire Molloy is Professor of Film, Television and Digital Media, and Director of the Centre for Human Animal Studies at Edge Hill University. Her recent publications include the books Memento (2010), Popular Media and Animals (2011), Beyond Human: From Animality to Transhumanism (2012) and American Independent Cinema: indie, indiewood and beyond (2013).

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