Cinema Pessimism —— A Political Theory of Representation and Reciprocity

----- 电影悲观主义：代表与对等的政治理论

ISBN: 9780190067724 出版年：2019 页码：193 Dienstag, Joshua Foa Oxford University Press

Cinema Pessimism explores the challenges of representative democracy through film. Film allows us to see the problems of democracy from a unique perspective, illuminating dangers that are not always visible to us either from day-to-day experience or the classics of democratic theory. Joshua Foa Dienstag argues that there are threats lurking in our political systems that we fail to perceive due to the many pleasures that representation (both political and filmic) provides. Ultimately, Dienstag seeks to defend a kind of pessimistic politics that might produce a better sort of democratic representation than what we have today.