The Routledge Companion to Cinema and Politics 1st edition by Yannis Tzioumakis, Claire Molloy ISBN 1317392453 9781317392453

Introduction

PART 1 Approaches to cinema and politics

Introduction

1 The Dialectics of Third Cinema

2 Geopolitics and Cinema

3 Ecopolitics of Cinema

4 The Politics of form A conceptual introduction to ‘Screen theory’

5 Revisiting the Political Economy of film

PART 2 Cinema, activism and opposition

Introduction

6 “New” New Latin American Cinema Manifestoes

7 Animal Rights Films, Organized Violence, and the Politics of Sight

8 Reel News in the Digital Age Framing Britain’s radical video-activists

9 Film and the Politics of Working Class Representation The Inside Film project

10 KONY 2012 Anatomy of a campaign video and a video campaign

PART 3 Film, propaganda, ideology and the state

Introduction

11 Propaganda, Activism and Environmental Nostalgia

12 Between ‘Information’ and ‘Inspiration’ The Office of War Information, Frank Capra’s Why We Fight series and US World War II propaganda

13 Striving for the Maximum Appeal Ideology and propaganda in the Soviet cinema of the 1920s and 1930s

14 “Victory Doesn’t always look the way other People Imagine It” Post-conflict cinema in Northern Ireland

15 Film Policy and England The politics of creativity

PART 4 The politics of mobility

Introduction

16 Cosmopolitanism, Empathy and the Close-Up

17 Regurgitated Bodies Presenting and representing trauma in The Act of Killing

18 After Dispossession Blackfella Films and the politics of radical hope

19 The Holocaust documentary Sense, meaning, and redemptive politics

20 A Bridge Over Troubled Water? Loving Jews and Muslims in two recent Mediterranean films

PART 5 Political Hollywood

Introduction

21 Social apocalypse in contemporary Hollywood film

22 Reassertions of Hollywood heroic agency in the Iraq War film

23 Spectacle VS. Narrative Action political movies in the new millennium

24 Representing 9/11 in Hollywood cinema

25 Reaganite Cinema What a feeling!

PART 6 Alternative and independent film and politics

Introduction

26 Film Festivals Mediating the mainstream and marginal voices

27 Politics, ‘Indie-Style’ Political filmmaking and contemporary US independent cinema

28 Dismantling the System from within The early films of Robert Altman and the politics of anti-establishment

29 Ethical Time, Ethical History Recent Israeli films

30 The way of Seeming

PART 7 The politics of cine-geographies

Introduction

31 African Cinema in the age of Postcolonialism and Globalization

32 Nationalist Geopolitics and film Tourism in India’s Hindi Cinema

33 Political Cinema In Latin America From nation-building to cultural translation

34 European Cinema Spectator- or spect-actor-driven policies

35 Minor Cinema The case of Wales

PART 8 The politics of documentary

Introduction

36 Twenty-First Century Political Documentary in the United States

37 Documenting Dissent Political documentary in the People’s Republic of China

38 Politics and Independence Documentary in Greece during the crisis

39 Secret City (2012) A reception diary

40 Interactive Documentary Film and politics in the digital era

Index