Cinema, Theory, and Political Responsibility in Contemporary Culture

Informationen zum Autor Patrick McGee is professor emeritus from Louisiana State University. He is the author of nine previous critical studies and the first two books of Comedy, Archival Resurrections and Cinematic Revolutions. He currently lives in Seattle. Klappentext This 1997 book explores the political significance of aesthetic analysis in the context of film and cultural studies. Zusammenfassung This 1997 book explores the political significance of aesthetic analysis in the context of cultural and film studies. Patrick McGee shows how film can be both a product and a critique of the culture industry. He analyses the function of the university in producing interpretations of such highly political art forms and in determining the limits of critical discussion. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Redeeming contradictions: from critical theory to cultural studies; 2. Art as the absolute commodity: the intersubjectivity of mimesis in Adorno's Aesthetic Theory; 3. Sexual nations: history and the division of hope in The Crying Game; 4. Deconstruction and responsibility: the question of freedom in the place of the undecidable; Bibliography.

Product details

• Authors: Patrick McGee, Patrick (Louisiana State University) Mcgee
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 14.08.1997
• EAN: 9780521589086
• ISBN: 978-0-521-58908-6
• No. of pages: 254
• Series: Literature, Culture, Theory
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education