Marxism and Film Activism

Screening Alternative Worlds
1. Auflage 2017
ISBN: 978-1-78533-762-8
Verlag: Berghahn Books

Buch, Englisch, 290 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 424 g

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 video-blogging, and bicycle activism films.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Mazierska, Ewa

Kristensen, Lars

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Theater- und Filmwissenschaft | Andere Darstellende Künste Filmwissenschaft, Fernsehen, Radio Filmtheorie, Filmanalyse
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Sozialphilosophie, Politische Philosophie
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Geschichte der Westlichen Philosophie Westliche Philosophie: 19. Jahrhundert
• Geisteswissenschaften Theater- und Filmwissenschaft | Andere Darstellende Künste Filmwissenschaft, Fernsehen, Radio Filmgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Ästhetik
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Ideologien Marxismus, Kommunismus
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Theorie, Politische Philosophie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Figures

Introduction

Ewa Mazierska and Lars Kristensen



PART I: PAST ACTIVISM

Chapter 1. Between socialist modernisation and cinematic modernism: the revolutionary politics of aesthetics of Medvedkin’s cinema-train

Gal Kirn

Chapter 2. Politics and Aesthetics within Godard’s Cinema    

Jeremy Spence

Chapter 3. Marker, Activism and Melancholy: Reflections on the Radical ‘60s in the later films of Chris Marker.

Jon Kear



Chapter 4. Marx Immemorial: workers and peasants in the cinema of Jean-Marie Straub and Danièle Huillet

Manuel Ramos Martinez

Chapter 5. In the Heat of the Factory: The Global Fires of The Hour of the Furnaces

Bruce Williams



PART II: PRESENT ACTIVISM

Chapter 6. Contemporary political cinema: the impossibility of passivity

William Brown

Chapter 7. Cultural resistance through film: The case of Palestinian cinema

Haim Bresheeth

Chapter 8. The Contemporary Landscape of Video-Activism in Britain

Steve Presence

Chapter 9. Marxist Resistance at Bicycle Speed: Screening the Critical Mass Movement

Lars Kristensen

Chapter 10. Tales of a video blogger

Michael Chanan

Chapter 11. Recovering the Future: Marxism and Film Audiences

Martin Barker

Notes on Contributors

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Mazierska, Ewa
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 Cinema.

Kristensen, Lars
Lars Kristensen is a Lecturer in Media, Aesthetics, and Narration at University of Skövde. He has published mainly on cross-cultural issues related to Russian cinema and is the editor of Postcommunist Film: Russia, Eastern Europe and World Culture (Routledge, 2012) and co-editor, with Eva Näripea and Ewa Mazierska, of Postcolonial Approaches to Eastern European Cinema: Portraying Neighbours On-Screen (I.B. Tauris, 2014).

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 Cinema.