World Politics On Screen

Author : Mark A. Sachleben
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2014-03-04
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780813143125

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World Politics on Screen by Mark A. Sachleben Pdf

Increasingly resistant to lessons on international politics, society often turns to television and film to engage the subject. Numerous movies made in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries reflect political themes that were of concern within the popular cultures of their times. For example, Norman Jewison's The Russians Are Coming! The Russians Are Coming! (1966) portrays the culture of suspicion between the United States and the Soviet Union during the Cold War, while several of Alfred Hitchcock's movies as well as the John Wayne film Big Jim McLain (1952) and John Milius's Red Dawn (1984) helped to raise and sustain skepticism about the Soviet Union. World Politics on Screen: Understanding International Relations through Popular Culture uses films and television shows like these as well as contemporary including 24, The Simpsons, South Park, and The Daily Show to guide readers to a deeper understanding of enduring issues in international politics. In this unique and insightful volume, author Mark Sachleben demonstrates that popular culture reflects societal beliefs about the world, and that the messages captured on television and film transcend time and place. Using films such as Secret Ballot (2001), Under the Bombs (2007), and Wall E (2008), he addresses topics such as international relations and diplomacy, the study of war, nuclear weapons, poverty, immigration and emigration, human rights, and genocide. An engaging read for students and for anyone with a general interest in politics and popular culture, World Politics on Screen succeeds in its argument by illuminating unexplored assumptions about international policy.

Author : Carl Eric Scott,F. Flagg Taylor, IV
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2014-07-11
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780813144993

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Totalitarianism on Screen by Carl Eric Scott,F. Flagg Taylor, IV Pdf

From its creation in 1950, to the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989, the German Democratic Republic’s Ministry for State Security closely monitored its nation’s citizens. Known as the Staatssicherheit or Stasi, this organization was regarded as one of the most repressive intelligence agencies in the world. Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck’s 2006 film The Lives of Others (Das Leben der Anderen) has received international acclaim—including an Academy Award, an Independent Spirit Award, and multiple German Film Awards—for its moving portrayal of East German life under the pervasive surveillance of the Stasi. In Totalitarianism on Screen, political theorists Carl Eric Scott and F. Flagg Taylor IV assemble top scholars to analyze the film from philosophical and political perspectives. Their essays confront the nature and legacy of East Germany’s totalitarian government and outline the reasons why such regimes endure. Other than magazine and newspaper reviews, little has been written about The Lives of Others. This volume brings German scholarship on the topic to an English-speaking audience for the first time and explores the issue of government surveillance at a time when the subject is often front-page news. Featuring contributions from German president Joachim Gauck, prominent singer-songwriter Wolf Biermann, journalists Paul Hockenos and Lauren Weiner, and noted scholars Paul Cantor and James Pontuso, Totalitarianism on Screen contributes to the growing scholarship on totalitarianism and will interest historians, political theorists, philosophers, and fans of the film.

Author : Hsiu-Chuang Deppman
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2010-04-30
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780824833732

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Adapted for the Screen by Hsiu-Chuang Deppman Pdf

Hsiu-Chang Deppman puts landmark contemporary Chinese films in the context of their literary origins & explores how the best Chinese directors adapt fictional narratives & styles for film.

Author : Malek Khouri
Publisher : University of Calgary Press
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781552381991

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Filming Politics by Malek Khouri Pdf

The National Film Board of Canada (NFB) was created in 1939 to produce, distribute, and promote Canadian cinema both domestically and abroad. In Filming Politics, author Malek Khouri explores the work of the NFB during this period and argues that the political discourse of the films produced by this institution offered a counter-hegemonic portrayal of working class people and presented them as agents of social change. Filming Politics brings to light a number of films from the early years of the NFB, most of which have long been forgotten.

Author : Sophie Harman
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2019-07-04
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780773557888

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Seeing Politics by Sophie Harman Pdf

Visual politics and the aesthetic turn in international relations have emphasized the power of the image in world politics. Postcolonial and decolonial feminist theory shows the urgent need to rethink research and teaching methods. What happens when these concepts converge and such thinking is translated into practice? Engaging with a broad range of topics – the politics of everyday life, health, HIV/AIDS, Africa, post-colonialism, gender/feminist theory, visuality, film, and method – in Seeing Politics Sophie Harman looks at scholars who are pushing the boundaries of how they do research, how they communicate their research to a broader audience, and what counts as scholarship in world politics. Through a detailed exploration of the political process of film production, from inception and co-production to distribution and exhibition, she addresses the tricky transnational relationships, government gatekeeping, and global hierarchies of film governance that control and marginalize the stories and people we see. Fundamentally, Seeing Politics is about how narrative feature film challenges and advances the discipline of international relations, revealing aspects of politics that would otherwise remain unseen and unaddressed. Film is not just a way of communicating research. It is a method that produces research and visibility, advancing research practice and knowledge in international relations. Innovative and compelling, this book is about the politics of seeing, being seen, and what stops us from seeing.

Author : Alice Maurice
Publisher : EUP
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2024-02-29
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1474493793

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Faces on Screen by Alice Maurice Pdf

Examines the face on screen from a variety of critical and historical perspectives

Author : A. F. K. Organski
Publisher : New York : Knopf
Page : 594 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1968
Category : International relations
ISBN : UCAL:B3648662

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World Politics by A. F. K. Organski Pdf

Author : Joel R. Campbell
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 409 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2022-03-14
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781793635174

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Politics Go to the Movies by Joel R. Campbell Pdf

This examination of film genres discusses how various films in five genres reflect or comment on political themes and ideas. The author uses constructivist and feminist political theory to examine the development of the political discourse in these films, and considers new ways to conceptualize the relationship between film or television and politics.

Author : Ariel Heryanto
Publisher : NUS Press
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2014-07-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789971698218

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Identity and Pleasure by Ariel Heryanto Pdf

Identity and Pleasure: The Politics of Indonesian Screen Culture critically examines what media and screen culture reveal about the ways urban-based Indonesians attempted to redefine their identity in the first decade of this century. Through a richly nuanced analysis of expressions and representations found in screen culture (cinema, television and social media), it analyses the waves of energy and optimism, and the disillusionment, disorientation and despair, that arose in the power vacuum that followed the dramatic collapse of the militaristic New Order government. While in-depth analyses of identity and political contestation within the nation are the focus of the book, trans-national engagements and global dimensions are a significant part of the story in each chapter. The author focuses on contemporary cultural politics in Indonesia, but each chapter contextualizes current circumstances by setting them within a broader historical perspective.

Author : Robert A. Saunders
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 193 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2020-12-30
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780429769603

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Geopolitics, Northern Europe, and Nordic Noir by Robert A. Saunders Pdf

With its focus on the popular television genre of Nordic noir, this book examines subtle and explicit manifestations of geopolitics in crime series from Scandinavia and Finland, as well as the impact of such programmes on how northern Europe is viewed around the world. Drawing on a diverse set of literature, from screen studies to critical International Relations, Geopolitics, Northern Europe, and Nordic Noir addresses the fraught geopolitical content of Nordic television series, as well as how Nordic noir as a genre travels the globe. With empirical chapters focusing on the interlinked concepts of the body, the border, and the nation-state, this book interrogates the various ways in which northern European states grapple with challenges wrought by globalisation, neoliberalism, and climate change. Reflecting the current global fascination with all things Nordic, this text examines the light and dark sides of the region as seen through the television screen, demonstrating that series such as Occupied, Trapped, and The Bridge have much to teach us about world politics. This book will be of interest to those interested in geopolitics, national identity, and the politics of popular culture in: Scandinavian studies, media/screen studies, IR/political science, human/cultural geography, sociology, anthropology, cultural studies, and communication.

Author : I. Morgan
Publisher : Springer
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2011-05-09
Category : History
ISBN : 9780230117112

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Presidents in the Movies by I. Morgan Pdf

Cinematic depictions of real U.S. presidents from Abraham Lincoln to George W. Bush explore how Hollywood movies represent American history and politics on screen. Morgan and his contributors show how films blend myth and reality to present a positive message about presidents as the epitome of America's values and idealism until unpopular foreign wars in Vietnam and Iraq led to a darker portrayal of the imperial presidency, operated by Richard Nixon and Bush 43. This exciting new collection further considers how Hollywood has continually reinterpreted historically significant presidents, notably Abraham Lincoln, Theodore Roosevelt, and Franklin D. Roosevelt, to fit the times in which movies about them were made.

Author : Hito Steyerl
Publisher : National Geographic Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2013-04-05
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781934105825

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The Wretched of the Screen by Hito Steyerl Pdf

In Hito Steyerl's writing we begin to see how, even if the hopes and desires for coherent collective political projects have been displaced onto images and screens, it is precisely here that we must look frankly at the technology that seals them in. The Wretched of the Screen collects a number of Steyerl's landmark essays from recent years in which she has steadily developed her very own politics of the image. Twisting the politics of representation around the representation of politics, these essays uncover a rich trove of information in the formal shifts and aberrant distortions of accelerated capitalism, of the art system as a vast mine of labor extraction and passionate commitment, of occupation and internship, of structural and literal violence, enchantment and fun, of hysterical, uncontrollable flight through the wreckage of postcolonial and modernist discourses and their unanticipated openings. e-flux journal Series edited by Julieta Aranda, Brian Kuan Wood, Anton Vidokle

Author : Clayton R. Koppes,Gregory D. Black
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 404 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1990-08-16
Category : History
ISBN : 0520071611

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Hollywood Goes to War by Clayton R. Koppes,Gregory D. Black Pdf

The little-explored story of how politics, propaganda, and profits were combined to create the drama, imagery and fantasy that was American film during World War II. 32 black-and-white photographs.

Author : NABIL. BOUDRAA
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2020-01-15
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1621965007

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Algeria on Screen by NABIL. BOUDRAA Pdf

This study explains how Merzak Allouache broke away from Algerian state-run cinema to create an original style that makes him both unique and extremely interesting. This book provides context and analysis of his films.

Author : James N. Rosenau,Ernst-Otto Czempiel
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 1992-03-26
Category : Law
ISBN : 0521405785

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Governance Without Government by James N. Rosenau,Ernst-Otto Czempiel Pdf

A world government capable of controlling nation-states has never evolved, but governance does underlie order among states and gives direction to problems arising from global interdependence. This book examines the ideological bases and behavioural patterns of this governance without government.