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Film theory seeks to systematize film as a medium. It may use Critical theory, Formalism, Marxism, philosophy of language, or Lacanian psychoanalysis, while film criticism analyzes and examines a specific film (though larger generalizations can still be deduced from criticism).
Screen theory is a Marxist–psychoanalytic film theory associated with the British journal Screen in the early 1970s. [1] It considers filmic images as signifiers that do not only encode meanings but also mirrors in which viewers accede to subjectivity. [ 2 ]
Marxist film theory is an approach to film theory centered on concepts that make a political understanding of the medium possible. [ 1 ] [ failed verification ] An individual studying a Marxist representation in a film, might take special interest in its representations of political hierarchy and social injustices .
Marx Reloaded, written and directed by the British theorist Jason Barker, is a partly animated documentary film which investigates the contemporary relevance of Marx's ideas in the context of the financial crisis of 2007–2008. The film asks whether "(we) should ... accept the crisis as an unfortunate side-effect of the free market" or whether ...
Andrew Woods in the essay "Cultural Marxism and the Cathedral: Two Alt-Right Perspectives on Critical Theory" (2019), acknowledges comparisons to Cultural Bolshevism, but argues against the idea the modern conspiracy theory was derived from Nazi propaganda. He writes instead that its antisemitism is "profoundly American".
Film theory is a set of scholarly approaches within the academic discipline of film or cinema studies that began in the 1920s by questioning the formal essential attributes of motion pictures; [1] and that now provides conceptual frameworks for understanding film's relationship to reality, the other arts, individual viewers, and society at large. [2]
The Marx Lounge; Marx's notebooks on the history of technology; Marxist aesthetics; Marxist archaeology; Marxist film theory; Marxist Group (Germany) Marxist humanism; Marxist schools of thought; Maximum programme; Mediation (Marxist theory and media studies) Miliband–Poulantzas debate; Minimum programme; Mode of production
Critical theory, identified with the Institute for Social Research in interwar Germany and moving to the US after the rise of Hitler, applied Marxist as well as psychoanalytic concepts to the study of modern culture, in particular mass culture.