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A Midland Boc MB-191 $4.95 ST. THOMAS AQUINAS COLLEGE 36156000396778 75615 79K43 MacBean, James Roy M Film and revolution ST. THOMAS AQUINAS COLLEGE LIBRARY SPARKILL, NEW YORK 10976 I * f. V ' Film and Revolution Digitized by the Internet Archive in 2018 with funding from Kahle/Austin Foundation https://archive.org/details/filmrevolutionOOOOmacb James Roy MacBean 75615 INDIANA UNIVERSITY PRESS Bloomington and London SL THOMAS AQUINAS COLLEGE LIBRARY Sparkill. N. Y. 10976 Copyright © 1975 by Indiana University Press All rights reserved No part of this book may be reproduced or utilized in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying and recording, or by any information storage and retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publisher. The Association of American University Presses’ Resolution on Permissions constitutes the only exception to this prohibition. Published in Canada by Fitzhenry & Whiteside Limited, Don Mills, Ontario Manufactured in the United States of America Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data 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 75 791.43 M 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 9 Tout Va Bien and Letter to Jane: The Role of the Intellectual in the Revolution 166 v vi 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
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