The Radical Film Flashcards
Film serves the interest of the ruling class by assisting the ______?
Status quo
The radical film deals with the conjunction of cinema and what?
Politics
What is it that we think of as reality?
What we think of as reality is actually a prevailing of the dominant ideology; what the filmmaker puts forward to look real is a projection of ideology
According to Comolli and Narboni what is the “Category B” film category?
Films that attack ideological assimilation on two fronts: form and content = Radical Film
What was Bertold Brecht best known for?
Bertold Brecht was a German playwright and theatrical performer; creator of “epic theatre”
What is the purpose of “epic theatre”?
Lures the spectator in identification with characters, allowing for some emotional catharsis by the end of the production, doesn’t allow the spectator to get lost in emotion… Devise strategies “alienation effects” in order to make his audience think rather than feel
What relationship does the radical film have with verisimilitude?
Radical film is a refusal of verisimilitude; employing the approach Bertold Brecht developed with “epic theatre” within his plays
Who is Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels?
Marx and Engels wrote The Communist Manifesto. You cannot discuss film without considering economics. To understand alienation we must understand mass production (assembly line method produces alienation according to Marx)
Who is Louis Althusser?
Louis Althusser was a French Marxist philosopher. Resposible for discussing theories related to class, capitalism, social ideology, etc.
What was significant about Comolli and Narboni’s article in Cahiers du Cinema regarding the radical film?
Shifted the tone of Cahiers du Cinema to politics
