Almost fifty years ago, Jean-Louis Comolli and Jean Narboni published the manifesto “Cinema/Ideology/Criticism,” helping to set the agenda for a generation

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

Hermann Kappelhoff casts the evolution of cinema as an ongoing struggle to relate audiences to their historical moment. Appreciating cinema's unique ability to

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

The increasingly popular idea that cinematic fictions can 'do' philosophy raises some difficult questions. Who is actually doing the philosophizing? Is it the p