Film, politics, and Gramsci / Marcia Landy ; foreword by Paul Bove.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Landy, Marcia, 1931-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Communism and culture.

Politics and culture.

Motion pictures.

Gramsci, Antonio, 1891-1937.

Gramsci, Antonio.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xxv, 280 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, c1994.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This work reassesses Antonio Gramsci's politics in the light of contemporary Marxist critiques of mass culture. Unlike other studies of Gramsci that focus on either his political or cultural writings, it examines the relationship between politics, culture and history in his work.

Contents:

Foreword; Preface; Acknowledgments; 1. Gramsci, "Knowledge Claims and Knowing Subjects"; 2. The Gramscian Politics of Culture; 3. Socialism and/or Democracy: Politics, Culture, and the State; 4. Cultural Politics and Common Sense; 5. They Were Sisters: Common Sense, World War II, and the Woman's Film; 6. Looking Backward: Versions of History and Common Sense in Recent British Cinema; 7. Language, Folklore, and Politics in the Films of the Taviani Brothers; 8. Postmodernism as Folklore in Contemporary Science Fiction Cinema

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references (p. [263]-270) and index.

ISBN:

0-8166-8568-1

OCLC:

476093595