Film and Revolution

356 Pages·1975·26.062 MB·English

by  James Roy MacBean

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Film and
revolution
ST. THOMAS AQUINAS COLLEGE LIBRARY
SPARKILL, NEW YORK 10976
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James Roy MacBean
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INDIANA UNIVERSITY PRESS
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MacBean, James Roy.
Film and revolution.
Includes index.
1. Moving-pictures—Political aspects—Addresses,
essays, lectures. I. Title.
PN1995.9.P6M33 791-4309093 75-1936
ISBN 0-253-32189-1
ISBN 0-253-20191-8 pbk. 1 2 3 4 5 79 78 77 76 75
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Contents
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS vii
INTRODUCTION 1
Part One: Godard/Gorin: Rethinking the Function of Art
in Society
1
Politics and Poetry in Two or Three Things I Know About
Her and La Chinoise 13
2 Politics, Poetry, and the Language of Signs in Made in
USA 28
3
Weekend, or The Self-Critical Cinema of Cruelty 45
4
Le Gai Savoir: Critique Plus Auto-Critique du
Critique 61
5
One Plus One, or The Praxis of History 79
6 “See You at Mao”: Godard’s Revolutionary British
Sounds 99
7
Godard and Rocha at the Crossroads of Wind from The
East 116
8 Godard/Gorin/The Dziga Vertov Group: Film and
Dialectics in Pravda, Struggle in Italy, and Vladimir and
Rosa 139
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Tout Va Bien and Letter to Jane: The Role of the
Intellectual in the Revolution 166
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CONTENTS
Part Two: Film and Revolution on Many Fronts
10 La Hora de los Homos: “Let Them See Nothing but
Flames!” 183
11 The Ice-man Cometh No More: He Gave His Balls to the
Revolution 196
12 Rossellini’s Materialist Mise-en-Scene of La Prise de
Pouvoir par Louis XIV 209
13
Sex and Politics: Wilhelm Reich, World Revolution, and
Makavejev’s WR: The Mysteries of the Organism 230
14 The Sorrow and the Pity: France and Her Political
Myths 254
15
The Working Class Goes Directly to Heaven, Without
Passing Go: Or, The Name of the Game Is Still
Monopoly 268
Part Three: Post-Bazin Aesthetics: The Theory and Practice of
Marxist Film Criticism
16
Contra Semiology: A Critical Reading of Metz 285
17
The Ideological Situation of Post-Bazin Film
Criticism 312
NOTES 327
INDEX 333