This book has two aims to offer a series of investigations into aspects of contemporary politics such as race nation and gender and to articulate a critical philosophical perspective with politically disposed treatments of contemporary cinema What the author offers is a politics of critique inspired by Kant in which he attempts to show what it can mean to think the political The interventions into aspects of contemporary political issues as reflected in films including Hoop Dreams Lonestar Father of the Bride II The Adventures of Priscilla Queen of the Desert and To Live and Die in LA are also influenced by Deleuze Derrida Foucault and Lyotard theorists loosely regarded by the author as post Kantian This is a polemical work aimed at encouraging critical ethico political thinking Its breadth of theoretical scope and empirical reference and the innovative style of presentation will make it vital reading for all those with an interest in the linking of culture and politics