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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 .
Critical consciousness, conscientization, or conscientização in Portuguese (Portuguese pronunciation: [kõsjẽtʃizaˈsɐ̃w]), is a popular education and social concept developed by Brazilian pedagogue and educational theorist Paulo Freire, grounded in neo-Marxist critical theory. Critical consciousness focuses on achieving an in-depth ...
This is a list of important and seminal works in the field of critical theory. Otto Maria Carpeaux. História da Literatura Ocidental, 8 vol. (Portuguese, 1959–66) [1] M. H. Abrams. The Mirror and the Lamp: Romantic Theory and the Critical Tradition; Angela Davis. Women, Race, and Class; Are Prisons Obsolete? Theodor Adorno. Aesthetic Theory ...
Soviet Marxism: A Critical Analysis (1958) [52] One-Dimensional Man: Studies in the Ideology of Advanced Industrial Society (1964) A Critique of Pure Tolerance (1965) Essay "Repressive Tolerance," with additional essays by Robert Paul Wolff and Barrington Moore Jr. Negations: Essays in Critical Theory (1968) An Essay on Liberation (1969) Five ...
The Society of the Spectacle (French: La société du spectacle) is a 1967 work of philosophy and Marxist critical theory by Guy Debord where he develops and presents the concept of the Spectacle. The book is considered a seminal text for the Situationist movement. Debord published a follow-up book Comments on the Society of the Spectacle in ...
Wilhelm Reich and later the Frankfurt School complemented Marx's theory of society with Freud's theory of the subject, departing from orthodox Marxism and the Leninist traditions, and setting the foundations of what later came to be called "critical theory." Reich saw the rise of fascism as an expression of a long-repressed sexuality. Frankfurt ...
Throughout The Society of the Spectacle, Debord describes the spectacle as seen in the West in its diffuse form; however, he applies the concept to the Marxist-Leninist and Fascist states of the 20th century where there was a similar conflict between reality and media images. He develops the concept of the "concentrated spectacle" that is ...
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 ]