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Towards a Political Aesthetics of Cinema: The Outside of Film

Towards a Political Aesthetics of Cinema: The Outside of Film

Lie, Sulgi
Fairfax, Daniel

Paperback

Series: Film Culture in Transition

Film & Video ArtGeneral Political ScienceSocial Movements

ISBN10: 1041189672
ISBN13: 9781041189671
Publisher: Routledge
Published: Dec 1 2025
Pages: 332
Weight: 1.03
Height: 0.70 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English

Towards a Political Aesthetics of Cinema: The Outside of Film is a contribution to an aesthetics of cinema rooted in Marxist theory. Rather than focusing on the role that certain films, or the cinema as an institution, might play in political consciousness, the book asks a different question: how can the subject of politics in film be thought? This problem is presented in a systematic-theoretical rather than historical manner. The main aim of this book is a retrospective rehabilitation of the psychoanalytical concept of suture, whose political core is progressively revealed. In a second step, this rereading of suture-theory is mediated with the Marxist aesthetics of Fredric Jameson. From the perspective of this reconfigured aesthetics of negativity, films by Hitchcock, Antonioni, Haneke and Kubrick are analyzed as articulations of a political unconscious.

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