Screening Alternative Worlds
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Köp båda 2 för 785 kr"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 Rancire and Alain Badiou, by the dialectic between theory and praxis, by the dialectic of activism borne of theory and theory catching up with activism, and by the dialectic of ideological sophistication and broad popular impact." Dennis Rothermel, California State University, Chico "An excellent and overdue (i.e., not just timely) contribution. An important source of new ideas and perspectives, filled with ideas and questions to debate" John Hutnyk, Goldsmiths, University of London
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.
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 Medvedkins cinema-train Gal Kirn Chapter 2. Politics and Aesthetics within Godards 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 Danile 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