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"The Geopolitical Aesthetic is a dazzling... distillation andapplication of the theoretical system he first presented in The PoliticalUnconscious (1981)." -- The San Francisco BayGuardian
Taking contemporary films from theUnited States, Russia, Taiwan, France, and the Philippines, The GeopoliticalAesthetic offers a reading of some of the most interesting films of the last decadeand a general account of filmic representation in the postmodern world. FredricJameson poses some essential questions: How does representation function incontemporary film? How does contemporary cinema represent an ever more complex andinternational social reality? Jameson's sophisticated and theoretically informedreadings stress the ways in which disparate films -- for example, Godard's Passion, Pakula's All the President's Men, Yang's The Terrorizer, Tahimik's The PerfumedNightmare, Tarkovsky's Andrei Roublev -- confront similar problems ofrepresentation. The solutions vary widely but the drive remains the same -- thedesire to find adequate allegories for our socialexistence.
The Geopolitical Aesthetic, a refinement anddevelopment of the arguments put forward in Jameson's seminal work The PoliticalUnconscious, is crucial reading for everyone interested in both film analysis andcultural studies.
224 pages, Paperback
First published November 1, 1992