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"The fast and pronounced editing style generates a form of expressionist editing that communicates individual and mass neuroses and...

"The fast and pronounced editing style generates a form of expressionist editing that communicates individual and mass neuroses and sexual desire. The result, to borrow a phrase from Béla Balázs, conveys the crowd’s most 'expressive expression'. Put another way, here is editing that 'grasps what is behind' the characters and rips them frenetically to the surface."

Bernard McCarron, Le Brasier ardent (1923): Ivan Mosjoukine's clin d'oeil to German Expressionism.

#Editing #Cinema #SilentFilm

— With Lenin, Against Hegel? 'Materialism and Empirio-Criticism' and the Mutations of Western Marxism.In this article Alberto...

— With Lenin, Against Hegel? 'Materialism and Empirio-Criticism' and the Mutations of Western Marxism.

In this article Alberto Toscano considers three texts that allow us to explore the place that a recovery and reinterpretation of Lenin’s ‘Materialism and Empirio-Criticism’ played in setting the agenda of European Marxist philosophy after the crisis of ’56.

https://www.historicalmaterialism.org/with-lenin-against-hegel-materialism-and-empirio-criticism-and-the-mutations-of-western-marxism/

#Marxism #Materialism #Lenin #Hegel #Reading #Philosophy #Politics

"To understand what was possible in Russia, it was necessary to descend from pure theory to the Russian reality.” Ian Angus...

"To understand what was possible in Russia, it was necessary to descend from pure theory to the Russian reality.” Ian Angus illustrates how Marx and Engel's approach to the Russian question surprisingly reads as a response to certain critics from the twenty-first-century.

via
https://monthlyreview.org/2022/10/01/marx-and-engels-and-russias-peasant-communes/

#Marxism #Socialism #Russia #RussianCommunes

#Faust #FWMurnau #SilentFilm #Film #GermanCinema #WeimarCinema

#Faust #FWMurnau #SilentFilm #Film #GermanCinema #WeimarCinema

"In Summer of Fire and Blood, the first history of the German Peasants’ War in a generation, historian Lyndal Roper exposes the...

"In Summer of Fire and Blood, the first history of the German Peasants’ War in a generation, historian Lyndal Roper exposes the far-reaching ramifications of this rebellion. Though the war’s victors portrayed the uprising as naive and inchoate, Roper reveals a mass movement that sought to make good on the radical potential of the Protestant Reformation."

@bookstodon #Books #Reading #History #Politics #PeasantsWar

https://www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/lyndal-roper/summer-of-fire-and-blood/9781541647053/

A digitally restored version of the 1925 silent film INGMARSARVET, directed by Gustaf Molander and starring -among others- Märta Halldén,...

A digitally restored version of the 1925 silent film INGMARSARVET, directed by Gustaf Molander and starring -among others- Märta Halldén, Ivan Hedqvist, Lars Hanson and Conrad Veidt, is now available online courtesy of the Swedish Film Institute.

This restoration looks stunning and it's also supplemented by a newly written music score, composed and performed by Matti Bye.

#SilentFilm #SilentCinema #Cinemastodon

https://www.filmarkivet.se/movies/the-ingmar-inheritance/

"This process of the personalisation of conflicts by focussing on leaders serves to de-contextualise events from their broader setting...

"This process of the personalisation of conflicts by focussing on leaders serves to de-contextualise events from their broader setting and erases relevant geo-strategic, economic, and political factors in favour of a myopic focus on the leader in question’s alleged character traits."

An interesting essay by Louis Allday via:

https://www.ebb-magazine.com/essays/worse-than-hitler

#Aelita #YakovProtazanov #SilentFilm #SovietFilm #SovietCinema

#Aelita #YakovProtazanov #SilentFilm #SovietFilm #SovietCinema

The question of women’s liberation is central to any revolutionary project, and thus so is the question of “sex work.” Esperanza...

The question of women’s liberation is central to any revolutionary project, and thus so is the question of “sex work.” Esperanza Fonseca’s contribution makes the stakes of this debate crystal clear, as she combines personal experience, public policy research, and historical materialism to argue that Marxists cannot uphold what she calls “sex-trade-expansionary feminism.”

https://redsails.org/on-the-sex-trade/

#Socialism #Feminism #Capitalism #Violence #Prostitution

Yakov Protazanov's L'ANGOISSANTE AVENTURE (staring, among others, the exquisite Ivan Mosjoukine), is the first production by Russian...

Yakov Protazanov's L'ANGOISSANTE AVENTURE (staring, among others, the exquisite Ivan Mosjoukine), is the first production by Russian émigrés in France, made while they were fleeing the Russian Revolution.

Thankfully it is now available for free via the Cinémathèque française, and therefore I implore you all to become better acquainted with Vanya:

https://www.cinematheque.fr/henri/film/50774-l-angoissante-aventure-iakov-protazanov-1920/

#YakovProtazanov #IvanMosjoukine #RussianÉmigrés #ClassicFIlm #SilentFilm #Cinema #Cinemastodon

👉 Exciting new book: Hate Speech in Social Media. Linguistic Approaches.Drawing on the outputs of a three-year research project involving...

👉 Exciting new book: Hate Speech in Social Media. Linguistic Approaches.

Drawing on the outputs of a three-year research project involving scholars from five European countries as well as on external contributions, this collection offers insight into the linguistic construction of prejudice and discrimination in social media.

https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-031-38248-2

#Books #Reading #SocialSciences #Linguistics @bookstodon

Contrary to all experience, the patriarchal narrative of the “speechless” woman still seems to be convincing today. However, feminist...

Contrary to all experience, the patriarchal narrative of the “speechless” woman still seems to be convincing today. However, feminist theory shows the effects of male domination in the fields of philosophy, literature, and science that have led to the eradication of the memory of women’s creativity and ideas. These are forms of cultural exclusion and the suppression of women’s heritage. It transcends all cultures, all races, and all classes...

https://blog.degruyter.com/the-forgotten-half-of-history-why-women-philosophers-matter/

#Philosophy #Women

#Lonesome #PaulFejos #ClassicFilm #SilentFilm #Cinema

#Lonesome #PaulFejos #ClassicFilm #SilentFilm #Cinema

"Published here in English for the first time with a foreword and annotations from Jörn Schütrumpf, “The Breakdown of Unity in the...

"Published here in English for the first time with a foreword and annotations from Jörn Schütrumpf, “The Breakdown of Unity in the RSDLP”, an unsigned article by Rosa Luxemburg dated July 1912, was only the second time the SDKPiL publicly discussed the Bolsheviks and Lenin in particular. The leaders of the SDKPiL had by and large refrained from criticizing the Bolsheviks, as they viewed them as natural, albeit unpredictable, allies..."
https://www.rosalux.de/en/publication/id/51166/the-breakdown-of-unity-in-the-rsdlp
#Politics #Socialism #RosaLuxemburg

Christmas movies didn’t start with It’s A Wonderful Life – here’s a smattering of silent seasonal treats you can roast a chestnut...

Christmas movies didn’t start with It’s A Wonderful Life – here’s a smattering of silent seasonal treats you can roast a chestnut to. 🎄🥂

https://filmstories.co.uk/features/the-best-christmas-films-of-the-silent-era/

#Christmas #ChristmasMovies #SilentMovies #SilentFilm

In this list we aim to write women back into film history by championing 100 female-directed hidden gems that have been forgotten or...

In this list we aim to write women back into film history by championing 100 female-directed hidden gems that have been forgotten or unfairly overlooked.

https://www.bfi.org.uk/sight-and-sound/female-gaze-100-overlooked-films-directed-by-women

#Film #WomenFilmmakers #Cinema #Cinemastodon

👉 Exciting new volume: Feminism and the early Frankfurt School.Αn original collection of scholarship bringing together scholars of the...

👉 Exciting new volume: Feminism and the early Frankfurt School.

Αn original collection of scholarship bringing together scholars of the Frankfurt School and feminist scholars. Essays included in the volume explore ideas from the early Frankfurt School that were explicitly focused on sex, gender, and sexuality, and bring ideas from the early Frankfurt School into productive dialogue with historical and contemporary feminist theory.

https://brill.com/display/title/69331

#FrankfurtSchool #Feminism @bookstodon

👉 Tyrus Miller's book Georg Lukács and Critical Theory is available open access via:...

👉 Tyrus Miller's book Georg Lukács and Critical Theory is available open access via: https://edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-georg-lukacs-and-critical-theory.html

@bookstodon #GeorgLukács #TheodorAdorno #CriticalTheory #FrankfurtSchool #Marxism #Aesthetics #Utopia #Art

#TheHouseOfMystery #AlexandreVolkoff #ClassicFilm #SilentFilm #FrenchFilm #Cinema #Cinemastodon

#TheHouseOfMystery #AlexandreVolkoff #ClassicFilm #SilentFilm #FrenchFilm #Cinema #Cinemastodon

Verso shares free ebooks, reading lists and ongoing publishing on Palestine. 👇"These resources challenge much of the zionist...

Verso shares free ebooks, reading lists and ongoing publishing on Palestine. 👇

"These resources challenge much of the zionist ideology concerning the origins and identity of the contemporary state of Israel, as well as offering a clear history of the occupation, Israel's military industrial complex, and this latest explosion of violence in Gaza."

https://www.versobooks.com/en-gb/blogs/news/solidarity-with-palestine-free-resources-and-further-reading

#Palestine #History #Politics #Books #Reading