Jacques Rancière and the Politics of Art Cinema

by James Harvey

Overview

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?

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781474462938
Publisher:	Edinburgh University Press
Publication date:	06/04/2020
Pages:	152
Product dimensions:	6.14(w) x 9.21(h) x (d)

About the Author

James Harvey is an independent Film 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).

Table of Contents

Introduction: Politics and Art Cinema
Part I: A Cinema of Politics
Chapter 1: Panahi's Disagreement
Chapter 2: Larraín's Ambivalence
Part II: A Politics of Cinema
Chapter 3: Kaufman's Dissensus
Chapter 4: Ceylan's Equality
Part III: Between Politics and Cinema
Chapter 5: Akomfrah's Foreigner
Conclusion: Contemporary Political Art Cinema
List of images
Bibliography
Filmography

What People are Saying About This

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

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.

Editorial 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.

Film-Philosophy - Alice Pember

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

"A bold intervention in Ranci re 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 Ranci re's denial of political cinema." — Alice Pember, Film-Philosophy

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