Film, Politics, and GramsciU of Minnesota Press, 1994 - 280 pages |
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Page xiv
... and civi- lizations . Lest this seem too Spinozist , one should recall that when Gramsci thinks this issue of the interregnum , of the moment when thought experiences its own belatedness and struggles to bring about Foreword.
... and civi- lizations . Lest this seem too Spinozist , one should recall that when Gramsci thinks this issue of the interregnum , of the moment when thought experiences its own belatedness and struggles to bring about Foreword.
Page xv
Marcia Landy. thought experiences its own belatedness and struggles to bring about its own rebirth , at just this moment Gramsci insists that a new culture , a new society must be brought into being . In its fragmentary form , the force ...
Marcia Landy. thought experiences its own belatedness and struggles to bring about its own rebirth , at just this moment Gramsci insists that a new culture , a new society must be brought into being . In its fragmentary form , the force ...
Page xvii
... struggle intellectuals will be left only with the position of being organic to capital , to marginalized groups ( who may or may not form a bloc ; such nonclass thinking does not seem possible in Gramsci ) or fragmented opponents of a ...
... struggle intellectuals will be left only with the position of being organic to capital , to marginalized groups ( who may or may not form a bloc ; such nonclass thinking does not seem possible in Gramsci ) or fragmented opponents of a ...
Page xxi
... struggle against authoritarianism , but without being smothered by his- toricist cavils . On this , we recall Nietzsche's Use and Abuse of History for Life as well as Marx's Eighteenth Brumaire . Finally , there is one more point to ...
... struggle against authoritarianism , but without being smothered by his- toricist cavils . On this , we recall Nietzsche's Use and Abuse of History for Life as well as Marx's Eighteenth Brumaire . Finally , there is one more point to ...
Page xxii
... struggle beyond the limit . It eschews populist positions and accepts instead the obligations of rigor . It belongs worthily in the traditions to which it opens itself as it moves beyond : Gramsci , Negri , Benjamin , and so on . This ...
... struggle beyond the limit . It eschews populist positions and accepts instead the obligations of rigor . It belongs worthily in the traditions to which it opens itself as it moves beyond : Gramsci , Negri , Benjamin , and so on . This ...
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.
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