Date of Award
Fall 8-17-2018
Degree Type
Thesis
Degree Name
Master of Arts (MA)
Department
Film, Video & Digital Imaging
First Advisor
Angelo Restivo
Second Advisor
Jennifer Barker
Third Advisor
Ethan Tussey
Abstract
I return to Siegfried Kracauer’s questions regarding cinema’s capacity to illuminate the state of our political environment through film aesthetics, now within the context of neoliberal economic policy. During Industrialization, norms for the urban center and its technologies were not yet set in stone. Kracauer tracked aesthetic variations and mass interest as commercial cinema eventually settled into traditional Hollywood form. Now, traditional aesthetic boundaries between art and Hollywood cinema begin to blur amidst the “anything goes” media environment derived from rampant deregulation and the era of digital media. I am therefore interested in whether there remains a difference between commercial and art cinema and how we might define revolutionary cinema under postmodernism. For this, I propose an affective genre of politically resistant cinema and explore the process of tracking it in the age of digital media.
DOI
https://doi.org/10.57709/12832010
Recommended Citation
Couch, Corey, "A Return to Commercial Cinema in a Digital Age: Rerouting the Affective Impulse Under Neoliberalism." Thesis, Georgia State University, 2018.
doi: https://doi.org/10.57709/12832010