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Informationen zum Autor Robert Stam is University Professor at New York University. He has authored, co-authored and edited 17 books on film, cultural theory, national cinema, and postcolonial studies. His books include Francois Truffaut and Friends (2006), Literature through Film (2005), Film Theory: An Introduction (2000), and Tropical Multiculturalism (1997). He is co-author, with Ella Shohat, of Race in Translation (2012), Flagging Patriotism (2006), and Unthinking Eurocentrism (1994). Richard Porton is the author of Film and the Anarchist Imagination (1999) and editor of Dekalog 3: On Film Festivals (2009) . One of the editors of Cineaste magazine, his work on film has appeared in Cinema Scope, Sight & Sound , and The Daily Beast . Leo Goldsmith is a PhD candidate in the Department of Cinema Studies at New York University. He is the Film Editor of The Brooklyn Rail. Klappentext Keywords in Subversive Film/Media Aesthetics offers an exciting conversational journey through the overlying terrains of politically engaged art and artistically engaged politics. At once scholarly and entertaining, the book combines a major statement on subversive aesthetics, a survey of radical film strategies, and a comprehensive lexicon of concepts. Keywords defines, creates, and illustrates over a thousand terms and concept, drawing its examples from a wide range of media. Moving beyond political modernism, the book dramatically expands the definition of political cinema at a time when radical film might not mean a feature or a documentary but rather a music video, a Colbert episode, or a digital mash-up. Each chapter explores a different 'current' within the broad range of alternative aesthetics, covering an Aesthetic of the Commons; the Carnivalesque and Festive-revolutionary Practices; Political Modernism and post-Brechtian Performance; the Transmogrification of the Negative, the Hybridization of Documentary and fiction; and the Fractured Chronotope, and the Musicalization of Cinema. An invaluable text for anyone interested in contemporary politics, aesthetics, and the media, Keywords offers a cornucopia of old and new strategies available for use by critics as well as by artists. Zusammenfassung Keywords offers a conversational journey through the overlying terrains of politically engaged art and artistically engaged politics! combining a major statement on subversive aesthetics! a survey of radical film strategies! and a lexicon of over a thousand terms and concepts. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgments vii Introduction 1 1 An Aesthetics of the Commons 29 The Aesthetic Commons 30 From Columbus to Indigenous Media 32 First Peoples, First Features 37 The Storytelling Commons 42 Revisionist Adaptation and the Literary Commons 47 Cultural Indigenization 53 The Archival Commons and the Ab?]original Musical 58 2 The Upside?]Down World of the Carnivalesque 68 The People's Second Life 68 Sacred Parody 72 Festive?]Revolutionary Practices 76 Unruly Women 79 Polymorphous Celebrations 83 Stand?]up Comedy and Nuclear Catastrophe 86 Contemporary Fools 90 Pedagogic Humor and Provocation 94 Tropes of Social Inversion 98 Offside Cinema 100 3 Political Modernism and Its Discontents 107 The Two Avant?]Gardes 108 The Brechtian Legacy 110 Beyond Brecht 120 The Affective?]Corporeal Turn 126 The Rediscovery of Pleasure 133 The Legacy of the V?]Effect 136 Political Cinema in the Age of the Posts 139 4 The Transmogrification of the Negative 145 An Aesthetic of Mistakes 146 Third Cinema: From Hunger to Ga...
