Abstract:Kafka's work has exercised immense influence on cinema and his reflections on diminished human agency in modernity and the dominance of oppressive institutions that perpetuate individual or social alienation and political repression have been the subject of debates by philosophers such as Theodor Adorno, Walter Benjamin, Gilles Deleuze, Félix Guattari, and Alexander Kluge. Informed by a world-systems approach and taking a cue from Jorge Luis Borges’ point that Kafka has modified our conception of the future, a… Show more
“…Martin-Jones' close reading is wonderfully detailed and provides new insights into the films which have already been the subject of numerous studies by positioning these films in a transnational context. The book adds to a small but growing body of work using world-systems theory to analyse film, such as recent studies by Angelos Koutsourakis (2020) and Keya Ganguly (2018).…”
“…Martin-Jones' close reading is wonderfully detailed and provides new insights into the films which have already been the subject of numerous studies by positioning these films in a transnational context. The book adds to a small but growing body of work using world-systems theory to analyse film, such as recent studies by Angelos Koutsourakis (2020) and Keya Ganguly (2018).…”
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