Marx at the Movies

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xii

   PDF

2. Introduction

   • Ewa Mazierska, Lars Kristensen

   Pages 1-26

3. The Dialectical Image: Kant, Marx and Adorno

   • Mike Wayne

   Pages 27-45

4. The Utopian Function of Film Music

   • Johan Siebers

   Pages 46-61

5. Bloch on Film as Utopia: Terence Davies’ Distant Voices, Still Lives

   • Ian Fraser

   Pages 62-81

6. ‘But Joe, it’s “Hour of Ecstasy”’: A Materialist Re-evaluation of Fritz Lang’s You and Me

   • Iris Luppa

   Pages 82-101

7. Laughing Matters: Four Marxist Takes on Film Comedy

   • Jakob Ladegaard

   Pages 102-122

8. Workerist Film Humour

   • Dennis Rothermel

   Pages 123-146

9. Alienated Heroes: Marxism and the Czechoslovak New Wave

   • Peter Hames

   Pages 147-170

10. The Work and the Rights of the Documentary Protagonist

    • Silke Panse

    Pages 171-197

11. Amateur Digital Filmmaking and Capitalism

    • William Brown

    Pages 198-217

12. Citizen Marx/Kane

    • John Hutnyk

    Pages 218-243

13. The Meaning of History and the Uses of Translation in News from Ideological Antiquity — Marx/Eisenstein/The Capital (Video 2008) by Alexander Kluge

    • Ewa Mazierska

    Pages 244-266

14. Marx for Children: Moor and the Ravens of London and Hans Röckle and the Devil

    • Martin Brady

    Pages 267-286

15. Back Matter

    Pages 287-293

    PDF

Marx and the Moving Image approaches cinema from a Marxist perspective. It argues that the supposed 'end of history', marked by the comprehensive triumph of capitalism and the 'end of cinema', calls for revisiting Marx's writings in order to analyse film theories, histories and practices.

• Karl Marx
• Marxism
• political cinema
• film philosophy
• representation
• dialectics
• montage
• comedy
• documentary
• amateur
• adaption
• translation
• antiquity
• capitalism
• cinema
• film
• Fritz Lang
• marxism
• Utopia
• video

• University of Central Lancashire, UK

  Ewa Mazierska

• University of Skövde, Sweden

  Lars Kristensen

Martin Brady, King's College London, UK William Brown, University of Roehampton, UK Ian Fraser, Loughborough University, UK Peter Hames, Staffordshire University, UK John Hutnyk, Goldsmith College, University of London, UK Lars Kristensen, University of Skövde, Sweden Jakob Ladegaard, Aarhus University, Denmark Iris Luppa, London Southbank University, UK Ewa Mazierska, University of Central Lancashire, UK Silke Panse, University for the Creative Arts, UK Dennis Rothermel, California State University, Chico, USA Johan Siebers, University of Central Lancashire, UK Mike Wayne, Brunel University, UK

Policies and ethics