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The revolution introduced me to art, and art, in its own turn, brought me to the revolution.

Sergei Eisenstein

Marx at the Movies

14 February 2018 / 348

To mark the 200th anniversary of the birth of Karl Marx this year, John Green gives a brief outline of some of the influences of Marxist thought on... Continue reading

John Green

Films

200 years young

6 February 2018 / 354

Scott McLemee reviews The Young Karl Marx, which, on the eve of 200th anniversary of Marx’s birth, contains themes of economic crises and inequalities that remain relevant... Continue reading

Scott McLemee

Films

The Death of Stalin

28 October 2017 / 376

Gerry Rowe is disappointed by The Death of Stalin. In Andy Hamilton and Guy Jenkin’s ‘Drop the Dead Donkey’, the object of satire is a thoroughly British... Continue reading

Gerry Rowe

Films

Dunkirk: Keep Calm and Carry On?

25 August 2017 / 413

Daniel Clarkson Fisher reviews Christopher Nolan’s Dunkirk, and discusses the moral obligations of the artist, the WW2 combat genre, and the potential for a ‘truly radical flowering’... Continue reading

Daniel Clarkson Fisher

Films

Dunkirk – a visceral account of the Allied retreat

14 August 2017 / 344

Michael Roberts reviews the recently released Dunkirk. Taught to children in schools up and down the country, the evacuation of Dunkirk is ingrained into the very culture... Continue reading

Michael Roberts

Films

‘The most important of the arts’: film after the Russian Revolution

26 June 2017 / 487

John Green outlines the role of film in the Bolshevik Revolution, and the profound and lasting influence of Russian revolutionary film-makers on cinema not only in the... Continue reading

John Green

Films

Not the Feelies

22 June 2017 / 355

Jenny Farrell explains how Leviathan reveals the nature of capitalism. The dystopias of the mid-20th century, Brave New World (1932) and Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949), described with astonishing... Continue reading

Jenny Farrell

Films

Hypernormalisation

18 March 2017 / 494

Chris Jury finds Adam Curtis’s latest film to be memorable and compelling, but also irritatingly obscure. The term “hypernormalisation” is taken from Alexei Yurchak’s 2006 book Everything... Continue reading

Chris Jury

Films

I, Daniel Blake demands a political response

2 November 2016 / 292

Professor Mark Stephens argues that the underlying solution to the misery inflicted on the characters portrayed in David Loach’s film lies in reforming policy, not charity. Ken... Continue reading

Mark Stephens

‘Bomb the river’: space, class, and masculinity in Shane Meadows’ films

13 October 2016 / 334

Steve Presence looks at the way space, class and masculinity are represented in two films directed by Shane Meadows. Introducing his book Cinematic Countrysides (2007), Robert Fish... Continue reading

Steve Presence

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