Cinematic Political Thought

Coming to resemble an avant-garde documentary by its conclusion, Shapiro's work utilizes linguistic montage and détournement while opening itself up during its close readings of disparate films and other popular culture texts that range from an ephemeral moment during an interception at a Giant...

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Published in:Film quarterly 2002, Vol.56 (1), p.49
Main Author: Hoffman, Alison
Format: Review
Language:English
Subjects:
Counterfeiting
Cultural change
Cultural identity
Deleuze, Gilles
Foucault, Michel
Friedkin, William
Ideology
Immigration
Kant, Immanuel (1724-1804)
Kubrick, Stanley
Motion pictures
Nair, Mira
Nonfiction
Politics
Race
Reading
Said, Edward
Sayles, John (1950- )
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Summary:Coming to resemble an avant-garde documentary by its conclusion, Shapiro's work utilizes linguistic montage and détournement while opening itself up during its close readings of disparate films and other popular culture texts that range from an ephemeral moment during an interception at a Giants game to a particularly salient scene in the Australian film The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert 1994. Shapiro then ties this theory to the idea of the body, relating Steve James' Hoop Dreams (1994), a documentary which chronicles the lives of two black, high school age boys from Chicago's projects as they aspire to become NBA players, to Stanley Kubrick's Barry Lyndon (1975), a drama which charts one man's strivings for class mobility (the ultimate of which is the aristocracy) in eighteenth-century England.
ISSN:0015-1386
1533-8630