Sociology through the Projector takes issue with the question of how contemporary film can help answering the general, abstract but still urgent question: what is the social today? This book explains the performative relation to contemporary social theory in which cinema functions as a tool for social diagnosis.

There is much to be learned about social theory through an encounter with films as films are part and parcel of the society they portray. Increasingly more lay knowledge about social problems and facts stems from cinema as it offers to large audiences a...

A study of Slavoj Zižek's political philosophy. Focusing on the combination of psychoanalytic theory and philosophy, the book offers an overview of Zižek's analysis of contemporary society. In five chapters, the reader is introduced to Zižek's method, his view of the political impasse in the postmodern world, and his suggestion for a way ahead to renewed action and political invention. Rich in examples, the book gives an engaging and entertaining tour around the landscape of Zižek's political endeavour, while at the same time insisting on a more systematic and piecemeal...