192 Pages 37 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

190 Pages 37 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

192 Pages 37 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

In recent years, film has been one of the major genres within which the imaginaries involved in mapping the geopolitical world have been represented and reflected upon. In this book, one of America's foremost theorists of culture and politics treats those aspects of the "geopolitical aesthetic" that must be addressed in light of both the post cold war and post 9/11 world and contemporary... Read more

1. The New Violent Cartography 2. The Sublime Today 3. Lifting the Fog of War 4. Preemption Up Close 5. The Aesthetics of Disintegration 6. Perpetual War

Biography

Michael J. Shapiro is a Professor in the Department of Political Science, University of Hawaii at Manoa, USA. His research and teaching are in the areas of political theory, global politics and cultural studies.  Among his publications are: Methods and Nations: Cultural Governance and the Indigenous Subject (Routledge, 2004) and Deforming American Political Thought: Ethnicity, Facticity and Genre (University Press of Kentucky, 2006).

'Cinematic Geopolitics offers an engaging theoretical, political and historical discussion of how film is enabling a "re-mapping of the world" through the body and technology.' - Brian Faucette, Scope: An Online Journal of Film and Television Studies, October 2011