Marxist Film Theory and Fight Club

Author:   Anna Kornbluh (University of Illinois, USA)
Publisher:   Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
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Pages:   200
Publication Date:   02 May 2019
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Author:   Anna Kornbluh (University of Illinois, USA)
Publisher:   Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Imprint:   Bloomsbury Academic USA
Weight:   0.232kg
ISBN:  

9781501347306


ISBN 10:   1501347306
Pages:   200
Publication Date:   02 May 2019
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Manufactured on demand   Availability explained
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Acknowledgements Introduction Part One: Marxist Film Theory Part Two: Marxist Film Theory and Fight Club Conclusion Further Reading Notes Index

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Kornbluh has devised a remarkable two-fisted engine that examines simultaneously and in turns Marxist film theory and Fight Club. She offers a rigorous and highly original analysis of the film, in which cinematic form and economic circumstances vie with and outstrip each other, and a superb demonstration of the dialectic at work. * Joan Copjec, Professor of Modern Culture and Media, Brown University, USA *


[An] accomplished work of scholarship about an acclaimed film ... Analysing Fight Club helps us understand Marxist ideas about the violent, spiritually alienating world we live in ... Kornbluh's crash course in Marxism is admirably clear without being reductive. * Times Literary Supplement * A serious book that will benefit both those interested in Marxism itself and those whose interests lie within film studies more generally ... It is worthwhile for the reader to discover for themselves the richness of Marxist film theory explored in the book. * Marx & Philosophy Review of Books * Kornbluh has devised a remarkable two-fisted engine that examines simultaneously and in turns Marxist film theory and Fight Club. She offers a rigorous and highly original analysis of the film, in which cinematic form and economic circumstances vie with and outstrip each other, and a superb demonstration of the dialectic at work. * Joan Copjec, Professor of Modern Culture and Media, Brown University, USA * The first rule of Fight Club is: You do not talk about Fight Club. So, what's the first rule of Marxist film theory? If you or Anna Kornbluh can't talk about that either, her short sharp introduction nonetheless offers an expert account of what Marxism is and why-maybe more than ever-it matters. Moving elegantly between different theories of film and a film that does the work of theory, she both explains how several modes of Marxist analysis work and makes a powerful case for Marxism's status not as one method among many but rather as our best and maybe last chance to engage and to engage critically with the forms of a world we must find wanting. * Kent Puckett, Professor of English, University of California, Berkeley, USA *


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Anna Kornbluh is Associate Professor of English at the University of Illinois, Chicago, US. She is the author of Realizing Capital (2013), and her articles on Marxist aesthetics have appeared in Mediations, Novel, the LARB, Understanding Film: Marxist Perspectives, Lacan & Contemporary Cinema, and the Bloomsbury Companion to Marx.

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