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Author Léger, Marc James, author

Title Drive in cinema : essays on film, theory and politics / Marc James Léger
Published Bristol : Intellect, 2015
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Description 1 online resource (xxi, 285 pages)
Contents Cover; Half Title; Series; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Acknowledgements; Foreword: Revolution at the Drive-in by Bradley Tuck; Introduction: 1 + 1 + a; Chapter 1: Sad Bunny: Vincent Gallo and the Melancholia of Gender; Chapter 2: Drive in Cinema: The Dialectic of the Subject in Daisies and Who Wants to Kill Jessie?; Chapter 3: The Ghost Is a Shell; Chapter 4: Ecstatic Struggle in the World System: Werner Herzog's Encounters at the End of the World
Summary Drive in Cinema offers Žižek-influenced studies of films made by some of the most engaging and influential filmmakers of our time, from avant-garde directors Jean-Luc Godard, Werner Herzog, Alexander Kluge, Pier Paolo Pasolini and Vera Chytilová, to independent filmmakers William Klein, Oliver Ressler, Hal Hartley, Olivier Assayas, Vincent Gallo, Jim Jarmusch and Harmony Korine. These essays in critical cultural theory present interdisciplinary perspectives on the relations between art, film and politics. How does filmic symbolization mediate intersubjective social exchange? What are the possi
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Essays.
Motion pictures -- Miscellanea
Motion pictures.
essays.
PERFORMING ARTS -- Reference.
Essays
Motion pictures
Genre/Form Trivia and miscellanea
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781783204861
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9781783204878
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