Marxist Film Series
Whilst researching my PhD at the University of Nottingham, I co-founded and co-organised the Marx Reading Group with my friends and colleagues Dr Adity Singh and Dr Alexander Dunst. To accompany the growing interest in the group, we decided to run annual film screenings of films and documentaries with a revolutionary interest – whether fictionalisations of revolution, avant-gardist experiments in film as a political art form, or Situationist attempts at filmic detournement. The first series ran from October 2009 – April 2010.
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The Communist Manifestoon (2006) (dir. Decolinize) Can Dialectics Break Bricks? (1973) (dir. Kuang-chi Tu and René Viénet The Battleship Potyomkin (1925) (dir. Sergei M. Eisenstein) |
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October 1917: Ten Days That Shook the World (1927) (dir. Sergei M. Eisenstein) |
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Metropolis (1927) (dir. Fritz Lang) |
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Kuhle Wampe (1932) (dir. Slatan Dudow, written by Bertolt Brecht and Ernst Ottwald) |
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La Chinoise (1967) (dir. Jean-Luc Godard) |
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Shree 420 (1955) (dir. Raj Kapoor) |
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The Take (2004) (dir. Avi Lewis, writen by Naomi Klein) |
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A Place Called Chiapas (1998) (dir. Netie Wild) |
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Featured image by Breve Storia del Cinema under a CC BY-NC license. All other images used under fair dealings provisions.
Dr Caroline Edwards is Senior Lecturer in Modern & Contemporary Literature at Birkbeck, University of London. Her research and teaching specialisms are in 21st century literature and critical theory, science fiction and post-apocalyptic narratives, Marxist aesthetics, and utopianism.
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