Marxist Film

Understanding Film: Marxist Perspectives

Marxism and Film share at least one thing in common: they are both interested in the masses.From the introductionFilm remains one of the most dominant cultural forms in the world today. Crossing classes and cultures, it permeates many aspects of our consciousness. In film, perhaps more than any other medium, we can read the politics of time and place, past and present. The history of Marxism has intersected with film in many ways and this book is a timely reminder of the fruits of that intersection, in film theory and film practice. Marxist film theory returns to film studies some of the key concepts which make possible a truly radical, political understanding of the medium and its place both within capitalism and against it. This book shows how questions of ideology, technology and industry must be situated in relation to class – a category which academia is distinctly uncomfortable with. It explores the work of some of the key theorists who have influenced our understanding of film, such as Adorno, Althusser, Benjamin, Brecht, Gramsci, Jameson and others. It shows how films must be situated in their social and historical contexts, whether Hollywood, Russian, Cuban, Chinese or North Korean cinema. The authors explore the political contradictions and tensions within dominant cinema and discuss how Marxist filmmakers have pushed the medium in new and exciting directions.

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Mother

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Revolution

1989 New York City based Indie Film by Jeff Kahn... "A Red Comedy". Ollie and Suzy are Marxists in black T-shirts and shades, students at an unnamed university on New York's Lower East Side. They live with an unemployed drag queen who spends his time sitting unnoticed with a gun in his hand, contemplating suicide. At school, Ollie and Suzy meet naive Steve, who takes them into planning the Revolution they keep talking about. He tells them he has a rich aunt in Long Island with a closet full of money that they can use to finance the Revolution. While fighting off the bourgeois Long Island temptations of swimming, tennis and lust amongst other regressive capitalist-imperialist swine activities. Suzy, Ollie and Steve enjoy pigeon-hunting in the park, rose-cultivation with Mrs. Bobo-Newsome and a visit to a New York City cabaret where they discuss blowing up the Twin Towers (world trade center) and watch Suzy perform "Death in Venice California".

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Che Guevara (Revolucion) Double-Matted Art Print - 8x10

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Neoliberalism and Global Cinema: Capital, Culture, and Marxist Critique (Routledge Advances in Film Studies)

Global cinema can offer a purview into both the political economy of the neoliberal project and its far-reaching implications on culture, thus helping to contextualize neoliberalism's history. This book looks at:

how the production of cinema as commodity intersects with its production of subjectivities;
how the transformation of the business of cinema was a central feature of the reorganization of cultural production and also reveals the significance of culture in neoliberalism;
the anxieties around public and private spaces as they are played out nationally and globally in cinematic texts;
the contest between labor and capital in the production of cinema;
questions of gender and sexuality in relation to neoliberalism;
and the relation between cinema, civil society, and the nation state.

In other words, using film, this study attempts to investigate what Henry Giroux has called the "cultural politics" of neoliberalism.

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Mother

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Great Writers of the 20th Century Bertolt Brecht

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Film Theory: Film Theory, Film Noir, Film Genre, Feminist Film Theory, Marxist Film Theory, Mise En Scène, Structuralist Film Theory

Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Film Theory, Film Noir, Film Genre, Feminist Film Theory, Marxist Film Theory, Mise En Scène, Structuralist Film Theory, Formalist Film Theory, Psychoanalytical Film Theory, Queer Literary Interpretation, Magic Realism, Art Film, List of Auteurs, Unreliable Narrator, Diegesis, Documentary Practice, New Sincerity, Final Girl, German Expressionism, the Fright of Real Tears, Cinema 1: the Movement Image, Soviet Montage Theory, Montage, Auteur Theory, Gaze, Hyperlink Cinema, Composite Film, Stanley Cavell, Visual Music, Maelstrom International Fantastic Film Festival, National Cinema, Oneiric, Suspense, Distancing Effect, Journal of Religion

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Another Country

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Land and Freedom (Tierra y libertad) [IMPORTED, For All Regions, NTSC]

*IMPORTED from S. Korea.* "Land and Freedom" is a close-up look by script writer Jim Allen and director Ken Loach on the drama of the Spanish Civil War, and how it played out among the nameless little guys, the fighters in the trenches. The idealists, the idealogues, the romantics, the bored, who traveled from other countries to fight for Spain against Franco's fascist regime, the peasants of Aragon who speak words foreign to them, such as "collectivisation of the land", their loves, their deaths, their disillusionments-it's all there. Brilliantly directed, it has the realistic feel of an invisible camera following the men and women constantly, silently recording them as they put forth their ideas and convictions, beautifully photographed fighting in the bright Spanish landscape. English and Spanish are spoken in the movie (no "native" Spaniards speaking with a New York accent here) and the English subtitles translate the Spanish as well. The film leaves the viewer with an intimate understanding of what it was really like, usually something that only a good film can do.

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