The actions, images and stories within films can impact upon the political consciousness of viewers, enabling their audience to imagine ways of resisting the st
This book presents essays and scientific contributions examining the link between popular media and politics. The essays focus on the question of how political
This book utilizes philosophical tools to build up a framework for the classification, analysis and assessment of political cinema. The author first maps the ca
The Politics of Hollywood Cinema radically transforms our understanding of cinema's potential to be politically engaging and challenging. Examining several film
In this book, Michael J. Shapiro stages a series of pedagogical encounters between political theory, represented as a compositional challenge, and cinematic tex