Table of Contents

Introduction: Marxism, Film and Film Studies
Mike Wayne
1. Benjamin/Adorno/Brecht and Film b yEsther Leslie
2. Gramsci, Sembène, and the Politics of Culture by Marcia Landy
3. The Althusserian moment revisited (again). by Deborah Philips
4. Jameson, Postmodernism and the hermeneutics of paranoia by Mike Wayne
5. ‘Making It’: Reading Boogie Nights and Blow as Symbolic Economies of Surplus and Sentiment by Anna Kornbluh
6. The Critics Who Knew Too Little: Hitchcock and the Absent Class Paradigm by Colin McArthur
7. Economic and Institutional Analysis: Hollywood as Monopoly Capitalism by Douglas Gomery
8. Hollywood, Cultural Policy Citadel by Toby Miller
9. State Cinema and Passive Revolution in North Korea by Hyangjin Lee
10. Narrative, Culture, and Legitimacy: Repetition and Singularity in Zhang Yimou’s The Story of Qiu Ju by Xudong Zhang
11. Cinemas in Revolution: 1920s Russia, 1960s Cuba by Michael Chanan
Notes on Contributors
Index

About the Author

Mike Wayne is Professor of Film and Television Studies at Brunel University, London. He is the author of England's Discontents: History, Politics, Culture and Identities (Pluto, 2018), Understanding Film (Pluto, 2005) and Marxism and Media Studies (Pluto, 2003).

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