The Geopolitical Aesthetic Cinema and Space in the World System

One of the great excitement of this book is the way that the perspective it obtains enables an entirely fresh look at the whole question of film, and politics. What Jameson suggests is that we must now analyze film comparatively-that we can only understand a films politics when we place it both in its local political context and its global context as film-for any film will inevitably reflect on what one might call its place in the global distribution of cultural power.