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Marxism and Film Activism: Screening Alternative Worlds (Berghahn on Film)
Ewa Mazierska
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Hardcover. In Theses on Feuerbach, Marx writes "The philosophers have only interpreted the world differently; the point is to change it." This collection examines how filmmakers have tried to change the world by engaging in emancipatory politics in their work, and how audiences have received them. Editor(s): Mazierska, Ewa; Kristensen, Lars. Num Pages: 280 pages. BIC Classification: APFA. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 238 x 161 x 24. Weight in Grams: 646.
In Theses on Feuerbach, Marx writes, “The philosophers have only interpreted the world differently; the point is to change it.” This collection examines how filmmakers have tried to change the world by engaging in emancipatory politics through their work, and how audiences have received them. It presents a wide spectrum of case studies, covering both film and digital technology, with examples from throughout cinematic history and around the world, including Soviet Russia, Palestine, South America, and France. Discussions range from the classic Marxist cinema of Aleksandr Medvedkin, Chris Marker, and Jean-Luc Godard, to recent media such as 5 Broken Cameras (2010), the phenomena of ... Read more
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Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Berghahn Books
Condition
New
Number of Pages
290
Place of Publication
Oxford, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781782386421
SKU
V9781782386421
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99-15
About Ewa Mazierska
Ewa Mazierska is Professor of Film Studies at the University of Central Lancashire. She has authored nearly twenty monographs and edited collections, including Work in Cinema: Labor and Human Condition (Palgrave Macmillan, 2013), European Cinema and Intertextuality: History, Memory, Politics (Palgrave Macmillan, 2011), and Jerzy Skolimowski: The Cinema of a Nonconformist (Berghahn, 2010). She is a principal editor of the journal Studies in Eastern European ... Read more
Reviews for Marxism and Film Activism: Screening Alternative Worlds (Berghahn on Film)
"This is an excellent collection of penetrating scholarly treatments, signifying a Renaissance in the study of how activist cinema has reflected Marxist themes and influences.The whole volume is strongly influenced by contemporary French philosophers, Jacques Rancière and Alain Badiou, by the dialectic between theory and praxis, by the dialectic of activism borne of theory and theory catching up with activism, ... Read more