Sociology Through the Projector

by Bülent Diken, Carsten Bagge Laustsen, Bulent Diken

Book Overview

Sociology through the Projector takes issue with the question of how contemporary film can help answering the general, abstract but still urgent question: what is the social today? This book explains the performative relation to contemporary social theory in which cinema functions as a tool for social diagnosis.

There is much to be learned about social theory through an encounter with films as films are part and parcel of the society they...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0415445981
• ISBN13: 9780415445986
• Release Date: December 2007
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 156 Pages
• Weight: 0.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"