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Sociology through the Projector

Sociology through the Projector takes issue with the question of how contemporary film can help answer the general, abstract but still urgent question: what is the social today? This book explains the performative relation to contemporary social theory in which cinema functions as a tool for social diagnosis.

There is much to be learned about social theory through an encounter with films as films are part and parcel of the society they portray. Increasingly, more lay knowledge about social problems and facts stems from cinema as it offers to large audiences a popular and pedagogical introduction to social knowledge. Social theory cannot avoid a critical engagement with cinema as cinema interprets, invents, displaces and distorts the object of sociological inquiry.

This book will provide a deeper understanding of contemporary social theory as the chosen films will work as a pedagogical route into contemporary social theory. The films represent a mix of European and American blockbusters and more aesthetically oriented films.

The authors question several dominant topics and concerns within social theory and film studies. First, by cross-examining a series of concepts such as identity, representation, memory and surveillance (filming social behaviour) which are of concern to both film theory and social theory. Second, by trying to develop imaginative approaches to standard social concerns such as exclusion, gender roles and inequalities, power, infantilization and commodification of the social and psychological bonds.

This book will be a great resource for students and researchers of Sociology, Contemporary Social Theory, Film Studies and Cultural Studies.

Blent Diken is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Sociology, Lancaster University. Carsten Bagge Laustsen is Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science, Aarhus University, Denmark.

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Sociology through the Projector
Blent Diken and Carsten Bagge Laustsen

Sociology through the Projector

Blent DikenandCarsten Bagge Laustsen

LONDON AND NEW YORK

First published 2007
by Routledge
2 Park Square, Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon, OX14 4RN

Simultaneously published in the USA and Canada
by Routledge
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2007 Blent Diken and Carsten Bagge Laustsen

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British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data
A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library

Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data
Diken, Blent.
Sociology through the projector / Blent Diken and Carsten Bagge Laustsen.
p. cm.
Simultaneously published in the USA and Canada by Routledge.
1. Sociology. 2. Motion picturesSocial aspects. I. Laustsen, Carsten Bagge. II. Title.
PN1995.9.S6D54 2007
302.2343dc22
2007012707

ISBN13: 978-1-134-06485-4 ePub ISBN

ISBN10: 0-415-44597-3 (hbk)

ISBN10: 0-203-93439-3 (ebk)

ISBN13: 978-0-415-44597-9 (hbk)

ISBN13: 978-0-203-93439-5 (ebk)

Contents

Foreword by Slavoj iek

Projector in the heart of the social

Perhaps the best way to render palpable the theoretical and political bearing of Blent Diken and Carsten Bagge Laustsens Sociology through the Projector is to focus on the two Hollywood productions that were released to mark the fifth anniversary of 9/11: Paul Greengrasss United 93 and Oliver Stones World Trade Center. The first thing that strikes the eye is that both try to be as anti-Hollywood as possible: both focus on the courage of ordinary people, with no glamorous stars, no special effects, no grandiloquent heroic gestures, just a terse realistic depiction of ordinary people in extraordinary circumstances. There is undoubtedly a touch of authenticity in the films recall how the large majority of critics unanimously praised their avoidance of sensationalism, the sober and restrained style. It is this very touch of authenticity that should make us suspicious we should immediately ask ourselves what ideological purposes it serves.

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