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critical essays on class struggle in the cinema

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An edition of Marxism and the movies (2013)

Marxism and the movies

critical essays on class struggle in the cinema

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"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"--

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189

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Marxism and the Movies: Critical Essays on Class Struggle in the Cinema
2013, McFarland & Company, Incorporated Publishers
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Table of Contents

The pre-war/silent era
Marx and Metropolis: the farce of religion in the face of dystopia / Mary K. Leigh
Metropolis: proletarian triumph or opiate of the masses? / Alan Williams
Love in the time of capitalism: A Marxist feminist reading of Modern times / Brooke Beloso
Part 2. The Post/War Era
"She look like a wrong one to you?" Bloody money body; Marxist subversion in Hitchcock's Psycho and Frear's The grifters / Gregory Borse
Replicants and the commodity form: a Marxian reading of Blade runner / J. Eric Lambert
"Somewhere that's green": the dream of the middle class in Frank Oz's Little shop of horrors / Traci J. Cohen
Apocalyptic redux: (re)vision and recognition in Terry Gilliam's Twelve monkeys / Jeremy Burns
Part 3. The new millennium
Tech-noir and the critical dystopia in the 21st century: Wimmer's Equilibrium / Alexander Charles Oliver Hall
Who's coming for dinner? an examination of A history of violence / Leslie Seawright
A Marxist look at Avatar / Tim Delaney and Ellen Reed
A myth (not so) betrayed: Ridley Scott's Robin Hood and the political evolution of the Greenwood / Jacob Lewis
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Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Dewey Decimal Class
791.4309
Library of Congress
PN1993.5.A1 M37 2013, PN1993.5.A1M37 2013

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vi, 189 pages
Number of pages
189

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OL26918502M
ISBN 10
0786471239
ISBN 13
9780786471232
LCCN
2013030976
OCLC/WorldCat
838415863

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