Cinematic Geopolitics

In recent years, film has been one of the major genres within which the imaginaries involved in mapping the geopolitical world have been represented and reflected upon. And philosophically oriented film analysis has been a genre within which the cinematic representations and reflections have been elucidated and analyzed. In this book, one of America's foremost theorists of culture and politics treats those aspects of the "geopolitical aesthetic" that must be addressed in light of both the post cold war and post 9/11 world and contemporary film theory and philosophy.Drawing on and engaging with a wide range of political and philosophical theory, including Benjamin, Derrida, Deleuze, Ranciere, Foucault and Virilio, Cinematic Geopolitics looks at a range of films from established classics like the Deer Hunter and the Battle of Algier s to contemporary films such as Dirty Pretty Things and the Fog of War .Shapiro, Michael J. is the author of 'Cinematic Geopolitics', published 2008 under ISBN 9780415776356 and ISBN 041577635X.