Marxism and Film Activism Screening Alternative Worlds [Paperback]

In?Theses on Feuerbach, Marx writes, The philosophers have only?interpreted?the world differently; the point is to change it. This collection examines how filmmakers have tried to change the world by engaging in emancipatory politics through their work, and how audiences have received them. It presents a wide spectrum of case studies, covering both film and digital technology, with examples from throughout cinematic history and around the world, including Soviet Russia, Palestine, South America, and France. Discussions range from the classic Marxist cinema of Aleksandr Medvedkin, Chris Marker, and Jean-Luc Godard, to recent media such as?5 Broken Cameras?(2010), the phenomena of video-blogging, and bicycle activism films.(
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Ewa Mazierskais Professor of Film Studies at the University of Central Lancashire. She has authored nearly twenty monographs and edited collections, includingWork in Cinema: Labor and Human Condition(Palgrave Macmillan, 2013),European Cinema and Intertextuality: History, Memory, Politics(Palgrave Macmillan, 2011), andJerzy Skolimowski: The Cinema of a Nonconformist(Berghahn, 2010). She is a principal editor of the journalStudies in Eastern European Cinema.

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 Medvedkins cinema-train
Gal Kirn

Chapter 2.Politics and Aesthetics within Godards Cinema?? ?
Jeremy Spence

Chapter 3.Marker, Activism and Melancholy: Reflections on the Radical 60s in the later lÃ#