Introduction Claire Molloy and Yannis Tzioumakis Part 1 Approaches to Film and Politics Introduction Philip Drake Chapter 1 The Dialectics of Third Cinema Mike Wayne Chapter 2 Geopolitics and Cinema Toby Miller Chapter 3 Ecopolitics and Cinema Sean Cubitt Chapter 4 The Politics of Form: A Conceptual Introduction to '' Screen Theory'' Warren Buckland Chapter 5 Revisiting the Political Economy of Film Janet Wasko Part 2 Film, Activism and Opposition Introduction Anthony Killick Chapter 6 "New" New Latin American Cinema Manifestoes Scott L. Baugh Chapter 7 Animal Rights Films, Organized Violence, and the Politics of Sight Anat Pick Chapter 8 Reel News in the Digital Age: Framing Britain''s Radical Video-activists Steve Presence Chapter 9 Film and the Politics of Working Class Representation: The Inside Film Project Deirdre O''Neill Chapter 10 Kony 2012: Anatomy of A Campaign Video and A Video Campaign Leshu Torchin Part 3 Film, Propaganda, Ideology and the State Introduction Claire Molloy Chapter 11 Propaganda, Activism and Environmental Nostalgia Claire Molloy Chapter 12 Between "Information" and "Inspiration": The Office of War Information, Frank Capra''s Why We Fight series and US World War II Propaganda Gregory Frame Chapter 13 Striving for the Maximum Appeal: Ideology and Propaganda in the Soviet Cinema of the 1920s and 1930s Panayiota Mini Chapter 14 ''Victory doesn''t always Look the Way other People Imagine It.'' Post-conflict Cinema in Northern Ireland Stephen Baker Chapter 15 Film Policy and England: The Politics of Creativity Paul Dave Part 4 The Politics of Mobility Introduction Stephanie Hemelryk Donald Chapter 16 Cosmopolitanism, Empathy and the Close-up Dimitris Eleftheriotis Chapter 17 Regurgitated Bodies: Presenting and Representing Trauma in The Act of Killing Lúcia Nagib Chapter 18 After Dispossession: Blackfella Films and the Politics of Radical Hope Felicity Collins Chapter 19 The Holocaust Documentary: Sense, Meaning and Redemptive Politics Brad Prager Chapter 20 A Bridge over Troubled Water? Loving Jews and Muslims in Two Recent Mediterranean Films Yosefa Loshitsky Part 5 Political Hollywood Introduction Brian Neve Chapter 21 Social Apocalypse in Contemporary Hollywood Film Douglas Kellner Chapter 22 Reassertions of Hollywood Heroic Agency in the Iraq War Film Geoff King Chapter 23 Spectacle vs. Narrative: Action Political Movies in the New Millennium Ian Scott Chapter 24 Representing 9/11 in Hollywood cinema Eleftheria Thanouli Chapter 25 Reaganite Cinema: What a Feeling! Gary Needham Part 6 Alternative and Independent Film and Politics Introduction Yannis Tzioumakis Chapter 26 Film Festivals: Mediating the Mainstream and Marginal Voices Marijke de Valck Chapter 27 Politics, ''Indie-Style'': Political Filmmaking and Contemporary US Independent Cinema Yannis Tzioumakis Chapter 28 Dismantling the System from Within: The Early Films of Robert Altman and the Politics of Anti-Establishment Jacqui Miller Chapter 29 Ethical Time, Ethical History: Recent Israeli Film Nurith Gertz Chapter 30 The Way of Seeming Rob Nilsson Part 7 The Politics of Cine-geographies Introduction Ewa Mazierska Chapter 31 African Cinema in an Age of Postcolonialism and Globalization Kenneth Harrow Chapter 32 Nationalist Geopolitics and Film Tourism in India''s Hindi Cinema Peter C. Pugsley Chapter 33 Political Cinema in Latin America: From Nation-building to Cultural Translation Armida de la Garza Chapter 34 European Cinema: Spectator- or Spect-actor-driven Policies Petar Mitric and Katharine Sarikakis Chapter 35 Minor Cinema - The Case of Wales Ruth McElroy Part 8 The Politics of Documentary Introduction John Corner Chapter 36 21st Century Political Documentary in the United States Betsy A. McLane Chapter 37 Documenting Dissent: Political Documentary in the People''s Republic of China Luke Robinson Chapter 38 Politics and Independence: Documentary in Greece during the Crisis Lydia Papadimitriou Chapter 39 Secret City (2012) A Reception Diary Michael Chanan and Lee Salter Chapter 40 Interactive Documentary: Film and Politics in the Digital Era James Lyons.