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Drive in Cinema: Essays on Film, Theory and Politics


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In Drive in Cinema, Marc James Léger presents Žižek-influenced studies of films made by some of the most influential filmmakers of our time, including Jean-Luc Godard, Pier Paolo Pasolini, Werner Herzog, Alexander Kluge, William Klein, Jim Jarmusch, Hal Hartley, Harmony Korine, and more. Working with radical theory and Lacanian ethics, Léger draws surprising connections between art, film, and politics, taking his analysis beyond the academic obsession with cultural representation and filmic technique and instead revealing film’s potential as an emancipatory force.

Table of Contents:
Foreword: Revolution at the Drive-in by Bradley Tuck Introduction: 1 + 1 + a Chapter 1: Sad Bunny: Vincent Gallo and the Melancholia of Gender Chapter 2: Drive in Cinema: The Dialectic of the Subject in Daisies and Who Wants to Kill Jessie? Chapter 3: The Ghost Is a Shell Chapter 4: Ecstatic Struggle in the World System: Werner Herzog’s Encounters at the End of the World Chapter 5: Alexander Kluge’s News from Ideological Antiquity: Marx – Eisenstein – Das Kapital: A Conversation with Michael Blum and Barbara Clausen Chapter 6: Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Obama (But Were Afraid to Ask Mr. Freedom) Chapter 7: An Interview with Marc James Léger on Radical Politics, Cinema and the Future of the Avant Garde by Bradley Tuck Chapter 8: Pasolini’s Contribution to La Rabbia as an Instance of Fantasmatic Realism Chapter 9: Godard’s Film Socialisme: The Agency of Art in the Unconscious Chapter 10: What Is to Be Done? with Spring Breakers Chapter 11: Analytic Realism in Activist Film Conclusion: Only Communists Left Alive

About the Author :
Marc James Leger is an independent scholar living in Montreal. He is the author of The Neoliberal Undead and editor of The Idea of the Avant Garde "and What It Means Today.

Review :
'Marc James Léger's Drive in Cinema is a vivid and compelling account from the front lines of post-avant-garde and popular cinema, bringing into view a politics of cinematic form in the wake of the long drawn out crisis of revolutionary film since the 1970s. If one wanted to distinguish today's neoliberal moment of film criticism from the 1970s - the partisan professionalized radical film theory of Screen, etc - this is where you'll find it.'  'Marc James Léger's Drive in Cinema is precisely what we need in film theory today. More than just a reading of cinema, it attends to the urgent necessity of thinking film and art beyond the more common formalist varieties that continue to dominate, and to the urgency of emancipatory politics in the new age of austerity. The essays collected here demonstrate with brilliance why Léger is one of our leading writers on avant-garde art and culture. A pleasure to read!'  'Drive in Cinema is concerned broadly with artists and filmmakers who exemplify the 'triple A' of avant-gardism: the antagonist, activist and agonist relationships between everyday life, art, theory and politics. This original and challenging contribution, an extremely readable and well-researched text, will be recognized by readers and filmmakers alike as a powerful intervention into the space of cinematic studies.' 


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9781783204854
  • Publisher: Intellect
  • Publisher Imprint: Intellect Books
  • Height: 229 mm
  • No of Pages: 308
  • Returnable: Y
  • Spine Width: 16 mm
  • Weight: 544 gr
  • ISBN-10: 1783204850
  • Publisher Date: 15 Sep 2015
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: Y
  • Returnable: Y
  • Sub Title: Essays on Film, Theory and Politics
  • Width: 178 mm


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