By Robert Stam, Richard Porton, Leo Goldsmith
Keywords offers a conversational trip in the course of the overlying terrains of politically engaged artwork and artistically engaged politics, combining a tremendous assertion on subversive aesthetics, a survey of radical movie innovations, and a lexicon of over 1000 phrases and concepts.
- No different publication combines an bold essay on radical politics and aesthetics in movie with a lexicon of phrases and concepts, lots of that are new and innovative
- Creates and illustrates over one thousand phrases and suggestion, drawing its examples from quite a lot of media
- Provides a vast timespan, protecting the very historic (Ramayana, Aristotle) to the most up-tp-date (digital mashups, memes)
- Uniquely discusses the components of movie, tv and the net inside one book
- No different ebook combines an bold essay on radical politics and aesthetics in movie with a lexicon of phrases and concepts, lots of that are new and innovative
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A key movement in the film—Atanarjuat’s desperate naked sprint across the gleaming Arctic ice—involves spirit‐guidance and a magical leap. Yet, the film does not glorify a “natural” pre‐modern people unsullied by technology; the closing credits show the indigenous cast and crew outfitted with headphones and cameras.
Colbert’s style and discourse parody conservative ideology not only through voice and body language (modeled on the macho blustering of cable gasbag Bill O’Reilly) but also by satirizing right‐wing doxa through ad absurdum exaggeration. Colbert voices in 22 Keywords in Subversive Film/Media Aesthetics laughable terms the right‐wing economic nostrums—predatory social Darwinism, blind market fundamentalism, and heartless trickle‐down economics. He has repeatedly lampooned not only the Super PACS with his own innocuously named “Making a Better Tomorrow, Tomorrow” Super PAC but also the pernicious trope of corporate personhood, which is being used to foster the complete corruption of political life in the United States.
Undergirding the book is the idea of critical utopia, that is, utopia not as blueprint or prediction but as a past‐ or future‐based critique of the present. ”45 At once a quietly passionate manifesto and an opinionated lexicon, Keywords names and illustrates strategies of very diverse provenance, all of which foster radical conceptualizations of film and politics. This archive includes strategies rooted in the longstanding legacy of artistic forms and chronotopes such as the carnivalesque (the world upside down, the grotesque body); strategies deriving from the historical avant‐gardes 26 Keywords in Subversive Film/Media Aesthetics (collage, found objects); strategies emerging from cable comedy (fake news, ideological impersonation) and from the new social media (hactivism).