Film and the politics of working class representation: The inside film project

This chapter aspires to facilitate a conversation between on the one hand some of the most apposite aspects of cosmopolitanism, especially around politics and ethics, and theoretical discourses and models of analysis in film studies on the other. The overarching objective is to open up the possibility of infusing political and ethical agend as in film analytics from the prism of cosmopolitanism while interrogating some of the appropriations of film form and film theory that occasionally surface within the forays into that field of approaches that are primarily philosophical, ethical and political. The examination of the privilege afforded to the face in close-up in this chapter demonstrated that there are politically and theoretically disturbing assumptions underpinning some appropriations of empathy that seem to further entrench rather than alleviate global divisions in relation to position and power.