Fredric Jameson and Film Theory Marxism, Allegory, and Geopolitics in World Cinema

"[The essays] demonstrate the range of interpretive projects made possible in the Jamesonian mode, the 'geopolitical aesthetic,' as it were, entailed in the study of the cultures generated in globalized capitalism. These collected essays bear out the editors' belief that Jameson's film theory might be a missing link that authorizes nuanced historiography without divesting the field of its critical powers." (Critical Inquiry) "This exciting volume explicates the Jamesonian project while also extending and-sometimes-taking issue with it. It will be regarded as a major landmark in film studies." - Carl Freedman (author of Critical Theory and Science Fiction) "This collection offers a thoughtful reckoning with the impact of Jameson's work on film studies to date while also charting a critical agenda for a Jamesonian film studies to come. Drawing on an international range of scholars Fredric Jameson and Film Theory answers Jameson's call to map the relation of individual films to the world-system of capitalism, illuminating along the way exciting new avenues for film theory and criticism." - Derek Nystrom (author of Hard Hats, Rednecks, and Macho Men: Class in 1970s American Cinema) "The excellent essays collected here revisit some of Jameson's explicit filmic engagements before scaling out to explore the wider utility of Jamesonian theoretical models in contexts that he did not necessarily address. In so doing, Fredric Jameson and Film Theory exemplifies one of its central claims, the importance of Jameson's work for thinking about the 'global turn' in film studies." - Joseph Jonghyun Jeon (author of Vicious Circuits: Korea's IMF Cinema and the End of the American Century)