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Politics of Imagination
Tara Forrest
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Description for Politics of Imagination
Paperback. Series: Cultural and Media Studies. Num Pages: 198 pages. BIC Classification: JHMC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 225 x 137 x 15. Weight in Grams: 292.
This book explores Walter Benjamin, Siegfried Kracauer and Alexander Kluge's analyses of the role that a rejuvenation in the capacity for imagination can play in encouraging us to reconceive the possibilities of the past, the present, and the future outside of the parameters of the status quo. The concept of imagination to which the title of the book refers is not a strictly defined, stable concept, but rather a term which is employed to refer to a capacity that facilitates both an active, creative relationship to one's environment, and a process of mediation between the outside world and one's own ... Read more
This book explores Walter Benjamin, Siegfried Kracauer and Alexander Kluge's analyses of the role that a rejuvenation in the capacity for imagination can play in encouraging us to reconceive the possibilities of the past, the present, and the future outside of the parameters of the status quo. The concept of imagination to which the title of the book refers is not a strictly defined, stable concept, but rather a term which is employed to refer to a capacity that facilitates both an active, creative relationship to one's environment, and a process of mediation between the outside world and one's own ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Transcript Verlag Germany
Number of pages
198
Condition
New
Series
Cultural and Media Studies
Number of Pages
198
Place of Publication
, Germany
ISBN
9783899426816
SKU
V9783899426816
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About Tara Forrest
Tara Forrest lectures in Screen Studies at the University of Technology, Sydney.
Reviews for Politics of Imagination
"[B]eyond its immediate appeal to those interested in film and cultural theory will [this book] contribute well to the increasing interest in emergent studies, the interactions between literature, art, science and science philosophy."
Lisa McDonald, Cultural Studies Review, 14/2, 9 (2008) Reviewed in: cultural studies review, 14/2, 9 (2008), Lisa McDonald
Lisa McDonald, Cultural Studies Review, 14/2, 9 (2008) Reviewed in: cultural studies review, 14/2, 9 (2008), Lisa McDonald