Jacques Rancière and the Politics of Art Cinema

James Harvey is an independent scholar. His research interests revolve around contemporary global politics, continental philosophy, film and visual culture. He is also the editor of Nationalism in Contemporary Western European Cinema (Palgrave Macmillan, 2018).

A bold intervention in Rancière scholarship and film-philosophy. Harvey takes films that have been deemed either politically impotent (This Is Not a Film, No) or simply apolitical (Synecdoche, New York, Climates, The Nine Muses) and mobilises close, formal analysis of their textual properties to mount a direct challenge to Rancière’s denial of political cinema.

• Introduction: Politics and Art CinemaPart I: A Cinema of PoliticsChapter 1: Panahi’s DisagreementChapter 2: Larraín’s Ambivalence Part II: A Politics of CinemaChapter 3: Kaufman’s DissensusChapter 4: Ceylan’s EqualityPart III: Between Politics and CinemaChapter 5: Akomfrah’s ForeignerConclusion: Contemporary Political Art CinemaList of imagesBibliographyFilmography