The pre-war/silent era -- Marx and Metropolis: the farce of religion in the face of dystopia / Mary K. Leigh -- Metropolis: proletarian triumph or opiate of the masses? / Alan Williams -- Love in the time of capitalism: A Marxist feminist reading of Modern times / Brooke Beloso -- Part 2. The Post/War Era -- "She look like a wrong one to you?" Bloody money body; Marxist subversion in Hitchcock's Psycho and Frear's The grifters / Gregory Borse -- Replicants and the commodity form: a Marxian reading of Blade runner / J. Eric Lambert -- "Somewhere that's green": the dream of the middle class in Frank Oz's Little shop of horrors / Traci J. Cohen -- Apocalyptic redux: (re)vision and recognition in Terry Gilliam's Twelve monkeys / Jeremy Burns -- Part 3. The new millennium -- Tech-noir and the critical dystopia in the 21st century: Wimmer's Equilibrium / Alexander Charles Oliver Hall -- Who's coming for dinner? an examination of A history of violence / Leslie Seawright -- A Marxist look at Avatar / Tim Delaney and Ellen Reed -- A myth (not so) betrayed: Ridley Scott's Robin Hood and the political evolution of the Greenwood / Jacob Lewis -- About the contributors.
Summary:
"The new essays assembled here approach a wide cross-section of cinematic history and provide analysis of blockbusters, cult hits, comedies, suspenseful dramas and history-making films within a framework of power, power relations and class struggle"-- Provided by publisher.
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