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.
It presents a wide spectrum of case studies, covering both film and digital technology.
Discussions range from the classic Marxist cinema of Aleksandr Medvedkin and Jean-Luc Godard, to recent media and the phenomena of video-blogging.
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
