Cinematic Political Thought: Narrating Race, Nation and Gender

by Michael J. Shapiro

Book Overview

In Cinematic Political Thought, Michael J. Shapiro investigates aspects of contemporary politics and articulates a critical philosophical perspective with politically disposed treatments of contemporary cinema. Reading such films as Hoop Dreams, Lone Star, Father of the Bride II and To Live and Die in LA through the lens of Deleuze, Derrida, Foucault and Lyotard, Shapiro demonstrates what it can mean to think the political...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0814797512
• ISBN13: 9780814797518
• Release Date: September 1999
• Publisher: New York University Press
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.2" x 9.2"