"This book provides a long-awaited account of how Marxism has shaped both the medium of film and the study of film. It covers key concepts that anyone studying film needs to engage with, as well as key theorists (both within and beyond film studies) and provides an historical pe…
Postcolonial cinema studies
"Film theory and its emphasis on political and ideological readings of films dominated much of cinema studies in the '70s and '80s. Since then, in response to what some view as the shortcomings of theoretical approaches, a variety of other methods have emerged or reemerged. In m…
''Explores the relationship between soft power and film in relation to national and transnational cinemas.''--
Imagining Kashmir: employment and colonialism
E. Barot prend pour fil conducteur de ce texte la question brechtienne du "réalisme", selon une perspective issue des dialectiques de Marx et de Sartre, et étudie les oeuvres des groupes Medvedkine, de Francesco Rosi et de Peter Watkins pour déterminer la notion même de film pol…
Activist film festivals: towards a political subject
Film festivals are an ever-growing part of the film industry, but most considerations of them focus almost entirely on their role in the business of filmmaking. This book breaks new ground by bringing scholars from a range of disciplines together with industry professionals to e…
Early cinema and the "national"
by King, Rob, Bertellini, Giorgio, Abel, Richard, Domitor Conference