Understanding film : Marxist perspectives /

• Other Authors: Wayne, Mike (επιμελητής)
• Format: Book
• Language: English
• Published: London ; Ann Arbor, MI : Pluto Press, 2005.
• Subjects: Κινηματογράφος > Πολιτικές απόψεις; Σοσιαλισμός και κινηματογράφος

'Understanding Film' is an unabashedly Marxist introduction to film studies. The book contains contributions from key Marxist theorists in the field, including Marcia Landy, Douglas Gomery and Esther Leslie.

Table of Contents:

• Adorno, Benjamin, Brecht and film / Esther Leslie
• Gramsci, Sembène and the politics of culture / Marcia Landy
• The Althusserian moment revisited (again) / Deborah Philips
• Jameson, postmodernism and the hermeneutics of paranoia / Mike Wayne
• 'Making it' : reading Boogie nights and Blow as economies of surplus and sentiment / Anna Kornbluh
• The critics who knew to little : Hitchcock and the absent class paradigm / Colin McArthur
• Economic and institutional anlysis / Douglas Gomery
• Hollywood, cultural policy citadel / Toby Miller
• State cinema and passive revolution in North Korea / Hyangjin Lee
• Narrative, culture and legitimacy / Xudong Zhang
• Cinemas in revolution / Michael Chanan.