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Author:   Mary K. Leigh ,  Kevin K. Durand
Publisher:   McFarland & Co Inc
Imprint:   McFarland & Co Inc
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 1.00cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.277kg
ISBN:  

9780786471232

ISBN 10:   0786471239
Pages:   196
Publication Date:   04 November 2013
Recommended Age:   From 18 years
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Table of Contents Preface (Kevin K. Durand) Introduction: Marx, Critical Theory and the Cinema (Kevin K. Durand) Part I: The Pre-War/Silent 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 II: The Post–War “She look like a wrong one to you?” BloodyMoneyBody—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 III: The New Millennium Tech­Noir 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 Index

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Mary K. Leigh is a doctoral academy fellow at the University of Arkansas. Kevin K. Durand is the dean of academics at the LISA Academy College Preparatory School in Little Rock, Arkansas. He has published broadly in philosophy, religion, and ethics.

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