Marx at the Movies

Martin Brady, King's College London, UKWilliam Brown, University of Roehampton, UKIan Fraser, Loughborough University, UKPeter Hames, Staffordshire University, UKJohn Hutnyk, Goldsmith College, University of London, UKLars Kristensen, University of Skövde, SwedenJakob Ladegaard, Aarhus University, DenmarkIris Luppa, London Southbank University, UKEwa Mazierska, University of Central Lancashire, UKSilke Panse, University for the Creative Arts, UKDennis Rothermel, California State University, Chico, USAJohan Siebers, University of Central Lancashire, UKMike Wayne, Brunel University, UK

• List of Figures Notes on Contributors Introduction; Ewa Mazierska and Lars Kristensen 1. The Dialectical Image: Kant, Marx and Adorno; Mike Wayne 2. The Utopian Function of Film Music; Johan Siebers 3. Bloch on Film as Utopia: Terence Davies' Distant Voices, Still Lives ; Ian Fraser 4. 'But Joe, it's 'Hour of Ecstasy'': A Materialist Revaluation of Fritz Lang's You and Me ; Iris Luppa 5. Laughing Matters: Four Marxist Takes on Film Comedy; Jakob Ladegaard 6. Workerist Film Humour; Dennis Rothermel 7. Alienated Heroes: Marxism and the Czechoslovak New Wave; Peter Hames 8. The Work and the Rights of the Documentary Protagonist; Silke Panse 9. Amateur Digital Filmmaking and Capitalism; William Brown 10. Citizen: Marx/Kane; John Hutnyk 11. The Meanings of History and the Uses of Translation in News from Ideological Antiquity - Marx/Eisenstein/The Capital (Video 2008) by Alexander Kluge; Ewa Mazierska 12. Marx for Children: Moor and the Ravens of London and Hans Röckle and the Devil ; Martin Brady Index