A radical new intervention into film studies and Marxist cultural studies, this book considers the contributions of Fredric Jameson to film Studies, and finds scholars applying, questioning, and developing his ideas in a wide-ranging collection of case studies from around the globe.

Introduction: Always Historicize the Moving Image! Fredric Jameson’s Place in Film Studies MICHAEL CRAMER, JEREMI SZANIAWSKI, AND KEITH B. WAGNER 1 Feeling Film as the Pulse of the Postmodern Condition: On Jameson’s “On Diva” DUDLEY ANDREW 2 Allegory and Accommodation: Vertov’s Three Songs of Lenin (1934) as a Stalinist Film JOHN MACKAY 3 Nostalgia, Melancholy, and the Persistence of Stalin in Polish Cinema JEREMI SZANIAWSKI 4 Jameson, Angelopoulos, and the Spirit of Utopia PAUL COATES 5 Jameson and Japanese Media Theory: A Virtual Dialogue NAOKI YAMAMOTO 6 Where Jameson Meets Queer Theory: Queer Cognitive Mapping in 1990s Sinophone Cinema ALVIN K. WONG 7 A Jamesonian Reading of Parasite (2019): Homes, Real Estate Speculation, and Bubble Markets in Seoul KEITH B. WAGNER 8 Strategies of Containment in Middle-Class Films from Mexico and Brazil MERCEDES VÁZQUEZ 9 The Neoliberal Conspiracy: Jameson, New Hollywood, and All the President’s Men MICHAEL CRAMER 10 The Conspiracy Film, Hollywood’s Cultural Paradigms, and Class Consciousness MIKE WAYNE 11 A Theory of the Medium Shot: Affective Mapping and the Logic of the Encounter in Fredric Jameson’s The Geopolitical Aesthetic PANSY DUNCAN 12 “An American Utopia” and the Politics of Military Science Fiction DAN HASSLER-FOREST Afterword FREDRIC JAMESON Acknowledgments Notes on Contributors Index