Abstract
What kind of an analysis can I be said to be undertaking in this book? What kind of project is being proposed? Looking back at the chapters on On the Waterfront and Mr Smith Goes to Washington can it be said that I am trying to find ways of applying political theories, so that some concepts are borrowed from Ernesto Laclau and applied to On the Waterfront while others are gathered from Claude Lefort and applied to Mr Smith? And so will it come to pass in this current chapter that some concepts will be gleaned from Etienne Balibar and applied to George Cukor’s Born Yesterday? In other words, am I merely using these films for illustrative purposes so that, for example, On the Waterfront can be said to illustrate some of Laclau’s theories, while Mr Smith illustrates Lefort’s and Born Yesterday illustrates Balibar’s? To such questions I can only answer ‘Yes’.
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