Cinema and Popular Geo-politics

This book explores the importance of cinema as a form of 'popular' geopolitics and looks at the ways in which film is important in the construction and imagination of the geopolitical world.

1. Reel Geopolitics: Cinematographing Political Space, Marcus Power and Andrew Crampton 2. The US-Mexico Border in American Movies: A political geography perspective, Elena Dell'agnese 3. The Demise of 'International Relations': America's Western Palimpsest, Michael J. Shapiro 4. Frames of Reference on the Geopolitical Stage: Saving Private Ryan and the Second World War/ Second Gulf War Intertext, Andrew Crampton and Marcus Power 5. Screeing Geopolitics: James Bond and the Early Cold War Films (1962-67), Klaus Dodds 6. Confronting the Geopolitical Aesthetic: Fredric Jameson, The Perfumed Nightmare and the Perilous Place of Third Cinema, Deborah Dixon and Leo Zonn 7. Palestinian 'Roadblock Movies', Nurith Gertz and George Khleifi 8. Inscribing the American Body Politic: Martin Sheen and Two American Decades, Simon Philpott and David Mutimer 9. The Frustrations of Geopolitics and the Pleasures of War: Behind Enemy Lines and American Geopolitical Culture, Gearoid O Tuathail 10. Staging the Border: National Identity and the Critical Geopolitics of West German Film, Inga Scharf