Film, Politics, and GramsciU of Minnesota Press, 1994 - 280 pages |
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Page xix
... Marxist or liberal modes of analysis . That is to say , while , like Gramsci , Landy certainly takes seri- ously the importance of the economic , while she studies in detail both the nature of value in postmodernism and the fact of ...
... Marxist or liberal modes of analysis . That is to say , while , like Gramsci , Landy certainly takes seri- ously the importance of the economic , while she studies in detail both the nature of value in postmodernism and the fact of ...
Page xx
... Marxism , Landy's is not a statist enterprise . The intellectual , after Gramsci , without the myth of the proletarian subject a la Lukacs or of the party a la Althusser , is something of an anarchist . This must be the effect of taking ...
... Marxism , Landy's is not a statist enterprise . The intellectual , after Gramsci , without the myth of the proletarian subject a la Lukacs or of the party a la Althusser , is something of an anarchist . This must be the effect of taking ...
Page xxi
... Marx's Eighteenth Brumaire . Finally , there is one more point to this title that catches the kind of intellectual Landy's work instanti- ates : " beyond " seems to mean " within " as well . We cross " beyond " and we come back to where ...
... Marx's Eighteenth Brumaire . Finally , there is one more point to this title that catches the kind of intellectual Landy's work instanti- ates : " beyond " seems to mean " within " as well . We cross " beyond " and we come back to where ...
Page xxiii
... Marxism ( which he is ) , but because in his writings he offered both an analysis of the totally administered society and tentative suggestions for how to struggle against it in the face of seemingly overwhelming ob- stacles , including ...
... Marxism ( which he is ) , but because in his writings he offered both an analysis of the totally administered society and tentative suggestions for how to struggle against it in the face of seemingly overwhelming ob- stacles , including ...
Page xxiv
... Marxist and poststructuralist concerns . Gramsci has remained a crucial barometer in a quest to understand con- figurations of subalternity . I offer this book itself as a critique of traditional thought on history , science , the human ...
... Marxist and poststructuralist concerns . Gramsci has remained a crucial barometer in a quest to understand con- figurations of subalternity . I offer this book itself as a critique of traditional thought on history , science , the human ...
Contents
1 | |
The Gramsdan Politics of Culture | 18 |
Socialism andor Democracy Politics Culture and the State | 43 |
Cultural Politics and Common Sense | 73 |
They Were Sisters Common Sense World War II and the Womans Film | 99 |
Looking Backward Versions of History and Common Sense in Recent British Cinema | 123 |
Language Folklore and Politics in the Films of the Taviani Brothers | 155 |
Postmodernism as Folklore in Contemporary Science Fiction Cinema | 185 |
Gramsci beyond Gramsci and the Writings of Antonio Negri | 211 |
Notes | 247 |
Bibliography | 263 |
Index | 271 |
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Page 126 - ... the way it really was' (Ranke). It means to seize hold of a memory as it flashes up at a moment of danger.
Page 78 - In acquiring one's conception of the world one always belongs to a particular grouping which is that of all the social elements which share the same mode of thinking and acting.
Page 79 - The personality is strangely composite: it contains Stone Age elements and principles of a more advanced science, prejudices from all past phases of history at the local level and intuitions of a future philosophy which will be that of a human race united the world over.
Page 88 - ... operates (mass culture is popular and thus more authentic than high culture, high culture is autonomous and therefore utterly incomparable to a degraded mass culture) — tends to function in some timeless realm of absolute aesthetic judgment, is replaced by a genuinely historical and dialectical approach to these phenomena.
Page 164 - The modern prince, the myth-prince, cannot be a real person, a concrete individual. It can only be an organism, a complex element of society in which a collective will, which has already been recognised and has to some extent asserted itself in action, begins to take concrete form.
Page 82 - Critical understanding of self takes place therefore through a struggle of political "hegemonies" and of opposing directions, first in the ethical field and then in that of politics proper, in order to arrive at the working out at a higher level of one's own conception of reality. Consciousness of being part of a particular hegemonic force (that is to say, political consciousness) is the first stage towards a further progressive selfconsciousness in which theory and practice will finally be one.
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Page 1 - our' problem is how to have simultaneously an account of radical historical contingency for all knowledge claims and knowing subjects, a critical practice for recognizing our own 'semiotic technologies' for making meanings, and a no-nonsense commitment to faithful accounts of a 'real...