[lbo-talk] Marxist Movies in NYC

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Wed Nov 24 10:29:55 PST 2004


Michael Dawson wrote:


>"a cinematic representation of the dialectic"
>
>Two questions:
>
>1. What is "the dialectic?"
>
>2. How do you show it in a movie?

I took a silent cinema course in college in which the prof, Standish Lawder, talked about Eisenstein's view that the relationship of successive scenes in a movie should be dialectical. It's been a long time since I saw an Eisenstein product, but I guess that's how.

Doug



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