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Cinema and Popular Memory: Critical Theory, History on Film and Popular Memory - Couverture souple

Deshpande, Shekhar

 
9783639312270: Cinema and Popular Memory: Critical Theory, History on Film and Popular Memory
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 3639312279 ISBN 13 : 9783639312270
Editeur : VDM Verlag Dr. Müller, 2011

Synopsis

Michel Foucault introduced the idea that films could deliberately re-write the memory of history that people hold. Cinema has become a large apparatus, with its influence felt far beyond the texts themselves, into the fabric of everyday life. There is logic to this apparatus, which governs how reception and retention of films are shaped. Popular memory is embodied into everyday life, as part of the cinematic apparatus, according to the libidinal structures of desire and available avenues of expression. This book is an examination of how popular memory is shaped and retained under the influence of cinema. It attempts to address the microscopic implications of the theories of discourse and power at the level of subjectivity. Arguing that the work of Julia Kristeva, Pierre Bourdieu, Maurice Merleau-Ponty and Jean-François Lytoard provides a way of understanding the embodied narrative resistance to the powers of the apparatus, this book provides methods of using critical theory for our understanding of the relationships between cinema and popular memory.

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Présentation de l'éditeur

Michel Foucault introduced the idea that films could deliberately re-write the memory of history that people hold. Cinema has become a large apparatus, with its influence felt far beyond the texts themselves, into the fabric of everyday life. There is logic to this apparatus, which governs how reception and retention of films are shaped. Popular memory is embodied into everyday life, as part of the cinematic apparatus, according to the libidinal structures of desire and available avenues of expression. This book is an examination of how popular memory is shaped and retained under the influence of cinema. It attempts to address the microscopic implications of the theories of discourse and power at the level of subjectivity. Arguing that the work of Julia Kristeva, Pierre Bourdieu, Maurice Merleau-Ponty and Jean-François Lytoard provides a way of understanding the embodied narrative resistance to the powers of the apparatus, this book provides methods of using critical theory for our understanding of the relationships between cinema and popular memory.

Biographie de l'auteur

Shekhar Deshpande is Associate Professor and the Director of the Communication Program at Arcadia University, where he held Frank and Evelyn Steinbrucker Endowed Chair from 2005 to 2008. He received his Ph. D. from Southern Illinois University. His main interests are world cinema, visual culture and cultural/media studies.

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Éditeur
VDM Verlag Dr. Müller
Date d'édition
2011
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
3639312279
ISBN 13 
9783639312270
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
284
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