Cinema and Popular Geo-politics

Marcus Power

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2013
• ISBN:
  9781317999171
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Politica e relazioni internazionali
• Subtopic: Politica

With a detailed range of approaches, this new collection investigates how cinematic narratives can and have been used to portray different political 'threats' and 'dangers'.

Including a range of chapters with a contemporary focus, it studies issues such as:

• how the geopolitical world has been constructed through film
• how cinema can provide explanatory narratives in periods of cultural and political anxiety, uneasiness and uncertainty.

Examining the ways in which film impacts upon popular understandings of national identity and the changing geopolitical world, the book looks at how audiences make sense of the (geo)political messages and meanings contained within a variety of films - from the US productions of Hollywood, to Palestinian, Mexican, British, and German cinematic traditions. This thought-provoking book draws on an international range of contributions to discuss and fully investigate world cinema in light of key contemporary issues.

This book was previously published as a special issue of Geopolitics.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half Title
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Table of Contents
• 1. Reel Geopolitics: Cinemato-graphing Political Space
• 2. The US–Mexico Border in American Movies: A Political Geography Perspective
• 3. The Demise of ‘International Relations’: America’s Western Palimpsest
• 4. Frames of Reference on the Geopolitical Stage: Saving Private Ryan and the Second World War/Second Gulf War Intertext
• 5. Screening Geopolitics: James Bond and the Early Cold War films (1962–1967)
• 6. Confronting the Geopolitical Aesthetic: Fredric Jameson, The Perfumed Nightmare and the Perilous Place of Third Cinema
• 7. Palestinian ‘Roadblock Movies’
• 8. Inscribing the American Body Politic: Martin Sheen and Two American Decades
• 9. The Frustrations of Geopolitics and the Pleasures of War: Behind Enemy Lines and American Geopolitical Culture
• 10. Staging the Border: National Identity and the Critical Geopolitics of West German Film
• Index