[Commlist] new book: Marxism Goes To The Movies

Introducing the key concepts and thinkers within the Marxist 
tradition,/Marxism Goes to the Movies /demonstrates their relevance to 
film theory and practice past and present.

Author Mike Wayne argues that Marxist filmmaking has engaged with and 
transformed this popular medium, developing its potential for 
stimulating revolutionary consciousness. As the crisis of capitalism 
deepens, this history and these resources are vital for a better future. 
Marxism is one of the few approaches that can bring together political, 
economic, formal and cultural analysis into a unified approach of 
studying film, and how films in turn can help us understand and even 
critically ​interrogate these forces. The book examines how filmmakers, 
who have been influenced by Marxism, have made some of the most 
significant contributions to film culture globally, and provides 
historical perspective on the development of Marxism and film. Each 
chapter covers a broad theme that is broken down into sections that are 
cross-referenced throughout, providing helpful navigation of the material.

Clear and concise in its arguments, this is an ideal introduction for 
students of Marxism and film, inviting readers to deepen their knowledge 
and understanding of the subject.


      Table of Contents

Chapter 1: Marxism

Chapter 2: History

Chapter 3: Methodologies

Chapter 4: Production

Chapter 5: Form

Chapter 6: Ideology　

Chapter 7: Realism

Chapter 8: Culture


      Reviews

/'Marxism Goes to the Movies/serves as an invaluable resource that 
persuasively argues how film studies must substantively engage with 
areas of political economy and cultural studies in order to remain 
politically relevant. Mike Wayne reveals how the politics of form emerge 
from wider cultural practices and distinct historical moments. 
Especially valuable, the book uses specific films and concrete examples 
related to filmmaking and various media industries to translate Marxist 
concepts to film and media studies students of all levels. Due to its 
wide-ranging focus on film production, distribution, exhibition, and 
reception,/Marxism Goes to the Movies/will serve as a core text in many 
film history and theory courses that want to relate the central ways in 
which film structures our relationship to the world and serves as a 
primary terrain where social change happens.'

Chris Robé, Professor of Film and Media Studies, Florida Atlantic University

'Very simply, the best single volume introduction to Marxism and film. 
Undogmatic, critical and nuanced, it leads the reader through the 
evolving ideas and practices necessary to make sense of the films that 
surround us, the industry that produces and sells them, and the 
audiences that enjoy or endure them.'

Mark Bould, University of the West of England

'Mike Wayne’s book is a masterful synthesis not only of film theory over 
the century and a quarter of its existence but of aesthetic theory, as 
well as being acutely aware of the overlap between the two and political 
economy. The thesis of/Marxism Goes to the Movies/, which he argues 
forcefully,is that the precepts of Marx and the Marxist tradition is the 
explanatory vehicle that best allows us to understand and grasp the 
formal and social contradictions that undergird the cinema. The book’s 
breadth of individual films and film movements is wide, encompassing 
British realism, Latin American anti-imperialist films and 
Marvel’s/Captain America./In this time of raging inequality, of 
zero-interest rates and climate devastation and plunder, Wayne’s call to 
materialist analysis and action could not be more relevant.'

Dennis Broe,/Birth of the Binge: Serial TV and The End of Leisure/

'In his relatively short book Mike Wayne manages to cover the many 
different facets of the relationship between Marxism and film, including 
film production, distribution, aesthetic form and questions of realism, 
drawing on and adding to the work of a number of historical figures, 
such as Raymond Williams and Gramsci./Marxism Goes to the Movies/is an 
indispensable source for anybody who is not only interested in Marxism 
and film, but also in the way ideology affects and is conveyed by film.'

Ewa Mazierska, Professor of Film Studies, University of Central Lancashire

Available from Routledge 
<https://www.routledge.com/Marxism-Goes-to-the-Movies-1st-Edition/Wayne/p/book/9781138677876>

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