The Geopolitical Aesthetic

Cinema and Space in the World System

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by Fredric Jameson

Indiana University Press

Due/Published August 1995, 240 pages, paper

ISBN 0253209668

Taking contemporary films from around the world, Jameson offers a reading of some of the most interesting movies of the last decade and a general account of filmic representation in the postmodern world. A refinement and development of the arguments put forward in The Political Unconscious.

"Often dazzlingly, Jameson sets film in a context that is both interdisciplinary and international, and the ultimate goals he sets for his investigation of the medium, as for his other cultural criticism, are nothing less than human survival and freedom."--East-West Film Journal