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Jacques Rancière and the Politics of Art Cinema
by James Harvey
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Book Presentation:
Analyses of Rancière’s philosophy and its potential for understanding the conversation between contemporary politics and art cinema
In Jacques Rancière and the Politics of Art Cinema, James Harvey contends that Rancière’s writing allows us to broach art and politics on the very same terms: each involves the visible and the invisible, the heard and unheard, and the distribution of bodies in a perceivable social order. Between making, performing, viewing and sharing films, a space is constructed for tracing and realigning the margins of society, allowing us to consider the potential of cinema to create new political subjects. Drawing on case studies of films including Charlie Kaufman’s Synecdoche, New York, Nuri Bilge Ceylan’s Climates and John Akomfrah’s The Nine Muses, this books asks to what extent is politics shaping art cinema? And, in turn, could art cinema possibly affect the political structure of the world as we know it?
Key Features
• Collates an eminent body of thought towards a new way of thinking about politics in cinema
• Brings together a number of major auteurs across the contemporary global art cinema scene
• Presents broad and informed social and historical analysis through close analysis of specific films
• The first book-length engagement with Rancière’s thought in relation to cinema
About the Author:
James Harvey is an independent scholar. His research interests revolve around contemporary global politics, continental philosophy, film and visual culture. He is also the editor of Nationalism in Contemporary Western European Cinema (Palgrave Macmillan, 2018).
Press Reviews:
A bold intervention in Rancière scholarship and film-philosophy. Harvey takes films that have been deemed either politically impotent (This Is Not a Film, No) or simply apolitical (Synecdoche, New York, Climates, The Nine Muses) and mobilises close, formal analysis of their textual properties to mount a direct challenge to Rancière’s denial of political cinema.– Alice Pember, Queen Mary University of London, Film-Philosophy
A bold intervention in Rancière scholarship and film-philosophy. Harvey takes films that have been deemed either politically impotent (This Is Not a Film, No) or simply apolitical (Synecdoche, New York, Climates, The Nine Muses) and mobilises close, formal analysis of their textual properties to mount a direct challenge to Rancière’s denial of political cinema.– Alice Pember, Queen Mary University of London, Film-Philosophy
James Harvey is to be congratulated for fine and careful work that will stand strong and true both in film studies and, more generally, in Rancière’s critical reception.– Professor Tom Conley, Harvard University
See the publisher website: Edinburgh University Press
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