Marx and film activism : screening alternative worlds /

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors:	Mazierska, Ewa (Editor), Kristensen, Lars Lyngsgaard Fjord (Editor)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	New York : Berghahn Books, 2015.
Series:	Berghahn on film
Subjects:	Motion pictures > Political aspects. Motion pictures > Social aspects. Communism and motion pictures.

Table of Contents:

Introduction / Ewa Mazierska and Lars Kristensen
Past activism. Between socialist modernisation and cinematic modernism: the revolutionary politics of aesthetics of Medvedkin's cinema-train / Gal Kirn
Politics and aesthetics within Godard's cinema / Jeremy Spence
Marker, activism and melancholy: reflections on the radical '60s in the later films of Chris Marker / Jon Kear
Marx immemorial: workers and peasants in the cinema of Jean-Marie Straub and Daniåle Huillet / Manuel Ramos Martinez
In the heat of the factory: the global fires of the hour of the furnaces / Bruce Williams
Present activism. Contemporary political cinema: the impossibility of passivity / William Brown
Cultural resistance through film: the case of Palestinian cinema / Haim Bresheeth
The contemporary landscape of video-activism in Britain / Steve Presence
Marxist resistance at bicycle speed: screening the critical mass movement / Lars Kristensen
Tales of a video blogger / Michael Chanan
Recovering the future: Marxism and film audiences / Martin Barker.