Cinema Pessimism: A Political Theory of Representation and Reciprocity

ISBN-13: 9780190067724 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 192 str.

Joshua Foa Dienstag

Recenzje

Studies of the political significance of film often worry that political life is threatened by the widespread passion for movies, in much the way that it is supposedly threatened by comics, rock'n'roll, rap, or the 'boob tube.' Dienstag's worry is deeper. In five lucid and provocative readings of films such as Her and Europa, he explores the prospect that filmic representation of the world itself reveals the possibilities and especially the dangers of the seemingly quite different representation of people and interests in contemporary politics. The result might be described as an updating of Rousseau's critique of the theater for our time.

O autorze

Joshua Foa Dienstag is Professor of Political Science and Law at the University of California, Los Angeles. He is the author of three previous books including, Pessimism: Philosophy, Ethic, Spirit, which won the Book Award for Excellence in Philosophy from the American Association of Publishers, and most recently, Cinema, Democracy, Perfectionism.