Sociology Through the Projector

Sociology through the Projector takes issue with the question of how contemporary film can help in answering the general, abstract but still urgent question: what is the social today? This book explains the performative relation to contemporary social theory in which cinema functions as a tool for social diagnosis.

Bülent Diken is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Sociology, Lancaster University. Carsten Bagge Laustsen is Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science, Aarhus University, Denmark.

1. Introduction: Cinema and Social Theory 2. Hamam: Postal Economies of the Orient 3. Lord of the Flies: Sociology of Spite 4. City of God: Camping as Social (Non)Relation 5. Fight Club: Violence in Network Society 6. Brazil: From Error to Terror 7. Life is Beautiful: The Ghost of Auschwitz. Afterword: Aesthetics Against Postpolitics