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	Marxist film theory - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Marxist film theory is one of the oldest forms of film theory.
		French Marxist film makers, such as Jean-Luc Godard, would employ radical editing and choice of subject matter, as well as subversive parody, to heighten class consciousness and promote Marxist ideas.
		Situationist film maker Guy Debord, author of The society of the spectacle, began his film In girum imus nocte et consumimur igni [Wandering around in the night we are consumed by fire] with a radical critique of the spectator who goes to the cinema to forget about his dispossesed daily life.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Marxist_film_theory (331 words)

	Film theory - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Film theory seeks to develop concise, systematic concepts that apply to the study of film/cinema as art.
		Classical film theory provides a structural framework to address classical issues of techniques, narrativity, diegesis, cinematic codes, "the image", genre, subjectivity, and authorship.
		In the 1960s film theory took up residence in academe, importing concepts from established disciplines like psychoanalysis, literary studies and linguistics.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Film_theory (418 words)

	Film Theory (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		From that point on, especially with the expansion of film departments and faculties at institutions of higher learning, film theory and criticism proliferated at a rapid rate, and film journals became as much a place for heated debate on the issues of art and aesthetics as the learned journals were for essays on literature.
		The film viewer is seen as the subject of a "gaze" that is largely "constructed" by the film itself, where what is on screen becomes the object of that subject's desire.
		The theory stresses the subject's longing for a completeness which the film may appear to offer through identification with an image; in fact, according to Lacanian theory, identification with the image is never anything but an illusion and the subject is always split simply by virtue of coming into existence.
	www.jahsonic.com /Film_theory.html (6592 words)

	Small on Cognitivism
		In contrast, film theory employs a diverse host of works to identify and elaborate general principles, 'to formulate,' in Dudley Andrew's words, 'a schematic notion of the capacity of film.' [3] Often such formulations are inextricably interwoven with matters of human mentation.
		Film theory is wealthy in its examination and elaboration of those distinctions, and I think the cognitivist pantheon could profit from such contribution.
		In the seventies he taught film theory at the University of Wisconsin under the course title 'Psychophysics and Cinema' where his text was a sheaf of articles winnowed from journals of experimental psychology.
	www.film-philosophy.com /portal/writings/small (2854 words)

	Marxist Media Theory (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Marxist theorists tend to emphasize the role of the mass media in the reproduction of the status quo, in contrast to liberal pluralists who emphasize the role of the media in promoting freedom of speech.
		The Frankfurt School of 'critical theory' was regarded by orthodox Marxists as 'revisionist' partly because it criticised economism and crude materialism, and partly because of its eclecticism.
		Marxist theory emphasizes the importance of social class in relation to both media ownership and audience interpretation of media texts: this remains an important factor in media analysis.
	law.ankara.edu.tr /~erdogan/marxism.htm (4184 words)

	Marxism - OpenWiki (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Although there are still many Marxist revolutionary social movements and political parties around the world, since the collapse of the Soviet Union and its satellite states, relatively few countries have governments which describe themselves as Marxist.
		North Korea is inaccurately described as Marxist, as both Kim Il Sung and Kim Jong Il have rejected conventional Marxist views in favour of the Korean "communist" variant, juche.
		Marx's theory of business cycles; of economic growth and development, especially in two sector models; and of the declining rate of profit, or crisis theory, are other important elements of Marxist economics.
	www.infoshop.org /wiki/index.php/Marxism (2267 words)

	MARXISM FACTS AND INFORMATION
		Marx's theory of business cycles; of economic growth and development, especially in two sector models; and of the declining rate of profit, or crisis_theory, are other important elements of Marxist economics.
		From a Marxist perspective, the actually-existing basic classes in today's advanced economies are the capitalist class, the new middle classes who engage in both labour and managerial responsibilities, self-employed proprietors, the working class and a lower "lumpenised" stratum.
		It is common to speak of ''Marxian'' rather than Marxist theory when referring to political study that draws from the work of Marx for the analysis and understanding of existing (usually capitalist) economies, but rejects the more speculative predictions that Marx and many of his followers made about post-capitalist societies..
	www.witwik.com /Marxism (3745 words)

	Smelik - Feminist Film Theory
		Although Clover is aware of the misogyny of the genre of the slasher film, she claims a subversive edge in that it adjusts gender representations and identifications.
		Combining documentary with fictional elements, this hybrid film centres on the relation between the body of the mother and that of her daughter by foregrounding questions of authenticity and authority.
		Or that the film is a self-reflexive study of the position of the documentary filmmaker.
	www.let.uu.nl /womens_studies/anneke/filmtheory.html (13080 words)

	2blowhards.com: Free Reads -- David Weddle on Film Theory
		Film theory is one small piece of the film studies curriculum at UCSB, as it is at the other established liberal arts film programs in the US.
		Film theory is not the whole of film studies.
		To attack film theorists for using jargon and moving away from director/hero worship is a bit like going after scientists for those goddamn ridiculous names they give to everyday phenomena, and critizing them for not talking about the great scientists moreall the time, in fact.
	www.2blowhards.com /archives/000901.html (3021 words)

	Prawit (pawit2525.multiply.com)
		In the film, Marxist theory explains the theme and actions of particular characters in their respective social classes to behave in a certain stereotypical ways.
		Under Marxist theory, the film stereotyped the rest of the upper class characters as sinister figures who were ignorant to changes but became resilient once turned into contingency threats, manipulative and patronizing, materialistically shallow and conventionally self-restrained and impassive emotionally.
		Marxist theory aided to describe the organization stratification of the social foundation in terms of financial, economical and political aspects of the characters in mainstream Hollywood movies.
	pawit2525.multiply.com /reviews/item/13 (1196 words)

	English: Undergraduate -- Focus in Literary Theory (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		These are some of the questions involved in the study of literary theory, an activity that involves uncovering and analyzing the assumptions we make when we set out to read and interpret literature and culture.
		Reading "theory" in an English department usually means reading poets, playwrights and novelists, on the one hand, and philosophers, social theorists and literary critics, on the other.
		In the spirit of these writers, a focus in theory should lead not just to a body of knowledge about approaches to interpretation but also to a habit of asking fundamental questions, and to an enriched sense of the interpretive options and stakes we face whenever we talk about meaning and interpretation.
	english.osu.edu /programs/undergraduate/theory.html (535 words)

	Cognitive Science and Film Theory/Freeland 1997
		The psychologists (Anderson and Tan) are pro-illusion, the philosophers (Currie and Carroll) are contra.
		Currie also rejects the idea that film involves cognitive illusions, the doctrine "that the film viewer believes he or she is watching real events" (or that the viewer has false beliefs, 28).
		Is a Cognitive Theory of Avant-garde Cinema Perverse?
	www.hfac.uh.edu /cogsci/CogSciFilmTheory.html (4405 words)

	Marxism (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Marxist critics of Stalinism, such as Trotsky and his followers, provide an account by which the theory is excused, on the basis that a corrupt regime is capable of perverting any theory.
		In this respect, many Marxist sociologists have tried to show how cultural artefacts can be used by a dominant economic class (the ruling class) to enhance their social status over other classes in society, This, therefore, is where a distinction between high culture and low culture can be an important one.
		However, according to Marxists, the people who are in the most influential positions in society are able to impose their definitions of "great" - and these definitions invariably reflect the kinds of activities and ideas that are most relevant and useful to a ruling class.
	www.jahsonic.com /Marxism.html (2397 words)

	Course Content Guide:
		Students analyze contemporary film techniques and the ways in which the films may both contribute and react to their time and culture; study contemporary film theory; and substantiate observations with examples taken from the film tradition and from the film itself.
		These tools will include: film-making and form; the history of film as an art form; film narrative; traditional film genres; and the ways in which a film may both contribute and react to its time and culture.
		Articulate a position by situating a film in a tradition and substantiating observations with examples taken from that tradition and from the film itself.
	www.pcc.edu /edserv/ccg/eng/ENG_197.htm (410 words)

	Film Theory, Philosophy and Aesthetics (Yale Library Film Studies)
		The Film and Philosophy Database contains details of around 500 films which can be used to enhance philosophy teaching at all levels.
		A list for the discussion of: philosophies of moving image culture, ontological questions of the cinema, cognitivist accounts of interpretation, the ethics of film drama, filmic aesthetics, phenomenologies of filmgoing, film as thought, and writers from Munsterberg to Cavell to Deleuze.
		Focuses on film history, criticism, theory, and concepts and definitions.
	www.library.yale.edu /humanities/film/filmphil.html (306 words)

	Film Theory FS30CE
		'Film Theory' often serves as shorthand for the fusion of poststructuralist, feminist, Marxist and post-colonial forms of analysis that occurred in the late nineteen sixties.
		While paying due attention to this important development, this course will view film theory as an object of greater longevity and variety, arguing that an exclusive focus on post-'68 perspectives is excessively limited.
		The theories in question will be considered both as an expression of philosophical positions and in terms of their capacity to illuminate - and interrogate - film texts.
	www.abdn.ac.uk /film/courses/fs30ce.shtml (274 words)

	Film and Movies, part 3 -- Theory
		Marxist film theory is one of the oldest forms of film theory: Sergei Eisenstein and many other Soviet filmmakers in the 1920s used Marxism as justification for film.
		Film affords an especially compelling aesthetic experience that can be considered as a form of illusion akin to the experience of daydream and dream.
		Turner considers issues of film institutions and their place in political culture, and the relevance of cultural theory from the US, UK and Australia in explaining the social practice of making, watching and talking about feature films.
	www.vtheatre.net /film/part3.html (1907 words)

	Theory and Method in American Cultural Studies
		This broad category is meant to encompass a variety of Marxist theories which have in common their rejection of economic or class determinism, and a concomitant belief in at least the semi-autonomy of the cultural sphere.
		He argues that AS theory and practice has often been a weak alternative to marxian thought and has suffered from lack of a full encounter with it.
		A wide-ranging collection of sophisticated essays on crucial issues in cultural theory previously neglected by marxists, especially race, gender and the role of culture in imperialism and colonialism.
	www.wsu.edu /~amerstu/tm/marx.html (1259 words)

	joannejacobs.com: Losing the syuzhet Film theory (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Film theory -- part academic gibberish, part Marxist gibberish -- doesn't have much to do with movies, writes David Weddle, who resents the money he spent so his daughter could earn a film studies degree at theory-heavy UC-Santa Barbara.
		Contrary to psychoanalytic criticism, I assume that film viewing is composed mostly of nonconscious, preconscious, and conscious activities.
		One was for the theory class, the other for her course in advanced film analysis.
	www.joannejacobs.com /mtarchives/013011.html (517 words)

	Film Studies - Theory and Criticism
		A course that critically examines functions of films and cinemas in contexts and countries whose nationhood and cultural references are informed by colonial and anticolonial histories.
		A forum for the psychoanalytical study of film containing a short introduction, articles, and links to other resources on the web that deal with film and/or psychoanalysis.
		This bilingual internet forum for film and philosophy provides articles, papers, and essays on film as well as an annotated bibliography and links to other film theory sites.
	www.uibk.ac.at /c/c6/c610/database/m05t01.html (315 words)

	call for papers & conference news \| IAMHIST
		We are particularly fascinated by her suggestion that film might accomplish a similar function as does micro-history by seeking to illuminate the experiences of the emotional subject from varied time and place co-ordinates.
		She continues to be interested in Belgian films of the first world war, and has begun a project on the colonial cinema in the Belgian Congo.
		Marxist thought was instrumental in the birth of Film Studies as a discipline; despite (and within) the subsequent twists and turns—linguistic, psychoanalytic, postmodernist, post-theory—it has continued and sustained, albeit often in the nooks and crannies.
	www.iamhist.org /news.html (7165 words)

	Marxist film theory
		German Marxist film makers had, however, been behind the development of subjective point of view camera angles, and they believed that it was possible to discomfit bourgeoise audiences with the very tools of bourgeoise illusionism.
		Murnau, among others, would use Expressionist techniques to force viewers into seeing through the eyes of working class figures ("The Last Laugh").
		In Can dialectics break bricks (1971) a Japanese samurai film was transformed by redubbing into an epistle on state capitalism and anarchist revolution.
	www.kiwipedia.com /marxist-film-theory.html (389 words)

	Autoaffection (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Explores the connection between new theories, new technologies, and new ways of thinking.
		In this book, Patricia Ticineto Clough reenergizes critical theory by viewing poststructuralist thought through the lens of "teletechnology," using television as a recurring case study to illuminate the changing relationships between subjectivity, technology, and mass media.
		Autoaffection links diverse forms of cultural criticism—feminist theory, queer theory, film theory, postcolonial theory, Marxist cultural studies and literary criticism, the cultural studies of science and the criticism of ethnographic writing—to the transformation and expansion of teletechnology in the late twentieth century.
	www.upress.umn.edu /Books/C/clough_auto.html (229 words)

	film theory
		This course will survey a variety of theories of film, from Sergei Eisenstein’s montage and Andre Bazin’s writings on realism to Marxist, psychoanalytic, postmodern, and feminist perspectives.
		Exams ask students to identify theorists and explain their ideas; the first covers the first third of the semester, the second, the second third.
		The in-class writing exercise asks students to consider the implications of linguistic/language models in film theory.
	www2.chass.ncsu.edu /maria_p/384.html (964 words)

	Society For Cinema Studies Caucus On Class
		The Caucus is particularly concerned to critique these areas of film and media work insofar as they contribute to the perpetuation rather than the eradication of oppressive, alienating, and exploitative divisions along class lines.
		Presentations are invited which analyze the systemic structural determinants of these phenomena and their affects on film and media studies, both in terms of institutional and ideological reaction and critical response and resistance.
		The practices of the humanities, including film and media studies, have persistently borne the brunt of legislation aimed to thwart “anti-Americanism,” legislation that at its core undercuts constitutionally guaranteed safeguards to academic freedom.
	terri1.home.mindspring.com (2578 words)

	Literary Theory. Literary Criticism
		Comparative Literature and Theory, Eclat; a web directory from The University of Pennsylvania.
		Deconstruction: A school of philosophy that originated in France in the late 1960s, has had an enormous impact on Anglo-American criticism.
		Literary theory, semiology and criticism (from Ohio State University).
	www.zeroland.co.nz /literary_theory.html (623 words)

	English: Research Methods and Critical Theory Bibliography
		The bibliography starts off with general theory resources and then categorizes them by literary time frame and genre ranging from the classics to the contemporary.
		Other useful information in this category is a timeline of literary theories in the United States and links to materials from some academic institutions on contemporary literary theory.
		The contemporary theory section highlights cultural studies, cyberculture, feminist theory, film theory, media theory, Marxist critique, deconstruction, postcolonial studies, postindustrial business theory, reader response theory and technology theory.
	www.library.southernct.edu /engcritbib.html (2251 words)

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