Film, Politics, and GramsciU of Minnesota Press, 1994 - 280 pages |
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Page x
... to language and sign systems , the anonymous forces of capital that determine these in all their relations — all of this and much more make up the nature of economics , culture , and politics as they intersect in Foreword.
... to language and sign systems , the anonymous forces of capital that determine these in all their relations — all of this and much more make up the nature of economics , culture , and politics as they intersect in Foreword.
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Marcia Landy. xii tuals in their task of making manifest whatever it is that capital needs to know , about whatever it is that capital needs us to speak . Landy's book is historical , but not historicist . In this sense , it follows ...
Marcia Landy. xii tuals in their task of making manifest whatever it is that capital needs to know , about whatever it is that capital needs us to speak . Landy's book is historical , but not historicist . In this sense , it follows ...
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... capital — as represented by the film industry - displaces not only the aristocratic parasitism of the ancient regime but the nationalist models of mass production . Such transformations require that the relations between intellectual ...
... capital — as represented by the film industry - displaces not only the aristocratic parasitism of the ancient regime but the nationalist models of mass production . Such transformations require that the relations between intellectual ...
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... capital needs and structures . It is rare to find a single set of remarks as concentrated in reflection on intellectual work as is this note by Gramsci . Landy's all - important reflec- tions on common sense derive , it seems to me ...
... capital needs and structures . It is rare to find a single set of remarks as concentrated in reflection on intellectual work as is this note by Gramsci . Landy's all - important reflec- tions on common sense derive , it seems to me ...
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... capital . But deep in his thinking is the possibility that , despite the desire for social- ism , without the class struggle intellectuals will be left only with the position of being organic to capital , to marginalized groups ( who ...
... capital . But deep in his thinking is the possibility that , despite the desire for social- ism , without the class struggle intellectuals will be left only with the position of being organic to capital , to marginalized groups ( who ...
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.
Page 1 - We need the power of modern critical theories of how meanings and bodies get made, not in order to deny meaning and bodies, but in order to live in meanings and bodies that have a chance for a future.
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...