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Zusatztext "Diken (Lancaster U.) and Laustsen (Aarhus U., Denmark) examine social issues in contemporary film, and apply those observations in the context of personal identity, film theory and modern culture. Designed to appeal to students of both sociology and film, this book addresses such topics as social exclusion, gender roles, the abuse of power and psychological bonds in modern society. Films such as Fight Club, Life is Beautiful, City of God, Lord of the Flie s and Brazil are discussed in depth." -- Book News Inc., August 2008 Informationen zum Autor Bülent Diken is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Sociology, Lancaster University. Carsten Bagge Laustsen is Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science, Aarhus University, Denmark. Klappentext Sociology through the Projector takes issue with the question of how contemporary film can help in answering the general, abstract but still urgent question: what is the social today? This book explains the performative relation to contemporary social theory in which cinema functions as a tool for social diagnosis. Zusammenfassung Sociology through the Projector takes issue with the question of how contemporary film can help in answering the general, abstract but still urgent question: what is the social today? This book explains the performative relation to contemporary social theory in which cinema functions as a tool for social diagnosis. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Introduction: Cinema and Social Theory 2. Hamam: Postal Economies of the Orient 3. Lord of the Flies: Sociology of Spite 4. City of God: Camping as Social (Non)Relation 5. Fight Club: Violence in Network Society 6. Brazil: From Error to Terror 7. Life is Beautiful: The Ghost of Auschwitz. Afterword: Aesthetics Against Postpolitics
