Marxism and the movies
Subtitle: critical essays on class struggle in the cinema
By: edited by Mary K. Leigh and Kevin K. Durand
Publisher: McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers
Published: 2013
Language: eng
Number of pages: 189
ISBN-13: 9780786471232
Subjects: Motion pictures; Marxist criticism; History
Description: "The new essays assembled here approach a wide cross-section of cinematic history and provide analysis of blockbusters, cult hits, comedies, suspenseful dramas and history-making films within a framework of power, power relations and class struggle"--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The pre-war/silent era; title: Marx and Metropolis: the farce of religion in the face of dystopia / Mary K. Leigh; title: Metropolis: proletarian triumph or opiate of the masses? / Alan Williams; title: Love in the time of capitalism: A Marxist feminist reading of Modern times / Brooke Beloso; title: Part 2. The Post/War Era; title: "She look like a wrong one to you?" Bloody money body; Marxist subversion in Hitchcock's Psycho and Frear's The grifters / Gregory Borse; title: Replicants and the commodity form: a Marxian reading of Blade runner / J. Eric Lambert; title: "Somewhere that's green": the dream of the middle class in Frank Oz's Little shop of horrors / Traci J. Cohen; title: Apocalyptic redux: (re)vision and recognition in Terry Gilliam's Twelve monkeys / Jeremy Burns; title: Part 3. The new millennium; title: Tech-noir and the critical dystopia in the 21st century: Wimmer's Equilibrium / Alexander Charles Oliver Hall; title: Who's coming for dinner? an examination of A history of violence / Leslie Seawright; title: A Marxist look at Avatar / Tim Delaney and Ellen Reed; title: A myth (not so) betrayed: Ridley Scott's Robin Hood and the political evolution of the Greenwood / Jacob Lewis; title: About the contributors.