Marxism and Film Activism (eBook)

Lars Kristensen is a Lecturer in Media, Aesthetics, and Narration at University of Skövde. He has published mainly on cross-cultural issues related to Russian cinema and is the editor of Postcommunist Film: Russia, Eastern Europe and World Culture (Routledge, 2012) and co-editor, with Eva Näripea and Ewa Mazierska, of Postcolonial Approaches to Eastern European Cinema: Portraying Neighbours On-Screen (I.B. Tauris, 2014).  

Ewa Mazierska is Professor of Film Studies at the University of Central Lancashire. She has authored nearly twenty monographs and edited collections, including Work in Cinema: Labor and Human Condition (Palgrave Macmillan, 2013), European Cinema and Intertextuality: History, Memory, Politics (Palgrave Macmillan, 2011), and Jerzy Skolimowski: The Cinema of a Nonconformist (Berghahn, 2010). She is a principal editor of the journal Studies 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 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