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Sociology through the projector /
Sociology through the Projector takes issue with the question of how contemporary film can help answering the general, abstract but still urgent question: what is the social today? This book explains the performative relation to contemporary social theory in which cinema functions as a tool for soci...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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London ; New York :
Routledge,
2007.
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| Colección: | International library of sociology.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover
- International Library of Sociology
- Sociology through the Projector
- Contents
- Foreword by Slavoj iek
- Acknowledgements
- 1 Introduction
- Sociology and the problem of correspondence
- Socio-fiction
- The cinematic apparatus
- Double readings
- The contents of the book
- 2 Hamam
- Hamam
- Writing Persian Letters
- The Orient as a zero-institution
- Returned to sender
- From the symbolic to the imaginary
- From the imaginary to the symbolic
- Four heroines
- 3 Lord of the Flies
- Play
- The crowd
- Spite
- Evil
- Exception
- Speechless
- 4 City of God
- Three worlds of misery
- City of God as a fantasy space
- Inclusionary exclusion
- The return of the real
- 5 Fight Club
- Capital and its subterranean other
- Insomnia/immobility
- Master of pain
- Microfascism
- Fight Club as critique
- Just joking?
- 6 Brazil
- (Anti)-terror
- The reign of the commodity
- The cynic
- Resistance
- A parallax of scepticism and optimism
- 7 Life is Beautiful
- The accident
- Holocaust as comedy
- The unspeakable
- The Muselmann
- The riddle of the Holocaust
- Post-remembrance
- Afterword
- References
- Index.