How to Do Politics with Art

ISBN-13: 9780367595791 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 222 str.

Violaine Roussel; Anurima Banerji

Opis

This volume brings together an interdisciplinary group of scholars from France and the United States to investigate these directions and themes by exploring the question of "how to do politics with art" from a comparative standpoint, putting sociological approaches in conversation with other disciplinary prisms. It will be of interest to scholar

Spis treści

Introduction (Violaine Roussel and Anurima Banerji)

1. Composing Workers (William Roy)

2. ‘Singing for a Cause’: Music and Political Mobilizations in Contemporary France (Lilian Mathieu)

3. How Activist Plays Do Politics (Bleuwenn Lechaux)

4. Nrityagram: Tradition and the Aesthetics of Transgression (Anurima Banerji)

5. ‘Social Cinema’ & ‘Civic Debates:’ The Politicization of Films through Festivals in France (Audrey Mariette)

6. Movie-Star Politics On and Off the Screen: Harry Belafonte, Jane Fonda, and Warren Beatty (Steven Ross)

7. How Hollywood Agents Do Politics (Violaine Roussel)

Afterword, A Filmmaker’s Perspective: On Ways of Viewing: Notes on the Making of Kamakha, Through Prayerful Eyes (Aparna Sharma)

O autorze

Violaine Roussel is Professor of Sociology at the University of Paris 8, France, and Affiliated Faculty at the University of Southern California, USA.

Anurima Banerji is Assistant Professor of World Arts and Cultures/Dance at the University of California, Los Angeles, USA.