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London School of Film, Media and Design University of West London Thinking the Image Research Group Research Seminars 2017-18 November 29th 2017 at 3.30-5.00pm in room BY.01.018 Dr James Harvey Jacques Rancière and the Politics of Art Cinema In recent years, few thinkers have had as profound an insight into the politics of art as Jacques Rancière. His notions of 'disagreement', 'dissensus' and 'the distribution of the sensible' provide ways of understanding how artworks reinforce, trouble, or even interrupt social orders. Yet, while he has argued in favour of 'political art' on multiple occasions, he has explicitly ruled against the possibility of a politics of cinema. This talk pits Rancière's political aesthetics against his film analyses, arguing that the heterogeneous arena of art cinema holds a political potential consistent with what he terms 'the aesthetic regime of art'. James Harvey is a Visiting Lecturer in Film Theory at University of West London. He has two books scheduled for release next year: Jacques Rancière and the Politics of Art Cinema (Edinburgh University Press, 2018) and the edited collection, Nationalism in Contemporary Western European Cinema (Palgrave Macmillan, 2018). All Welcome please RSVP to [log in to unmask] to confirm attendance London School of Film, Media and Design University of West London St Mary’s Rd, Ealing London W5 5RF United Kingdom -------------------------------------------------------- MeCCSA mailing list -------------------------------------------------------- To manage your subscription or unsubscribe from the MECCSA list, please visit: https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?SUBED1=MECCSA&A=1 ------------------------------------------------------- MeCCSA is the subject association for the field of media, communication and cultural studies in UK Higher Education. This mailing list is a free service and is not restricted to members. It is an unmoderated list and content reflect the views of those who post to the list and not of MeCCSA as an organisation. MeCCSA recommends that the list be used only for posting of information (for example about events, publications, conferences, lectures) of interest to members or to promote discussion of current issues of wide general interest in the field. Posts to the MeCCSA mailing list are public, indexed by Google, and can be accessed from the JISCMail website (http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/lists/meccsa.html). Any messages posted to the list are subject to the JISCMail acceptable use policy, which states that users should avoid engaging in unreasonable behaviour, or disrupting the general flow of discussion on a list. For further information, please visit: http://www.meccsa.org.uk/ --------------------------------------------------------