Description
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窶冱 response to political and social transformations and questions the extent to which filmmaking, itself, is a political act.
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 窶�Screen Theory窶�
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窶冱 Radical Video-activists
Steve Presence
Chapter 9
Film and the Politics of Working Class Representation: The Inside Film Project
Deirdre O窶儂eill
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窶冱 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
窶老ictory doesn窶冲 always Look the Way other People Imagine It.窶� 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, 窶露ndie-Style窶�: 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 窶� 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窶冱 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
