Harun Farocki's "Workers Leaving the Factory" is a marvelous essay on the
subject of solidarity (or lack thereof) in cinema.
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From: "Henry Taylor" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Tuesday, March 27, 2007 3:52 PM
Subject: Re: proletariat in film
> Not Western European, but you might want to take a look at Andrzej
> Wajda's Polish films Man of Marble (1977) and Man of Iron (1981, about
> Solidarity).
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>> Dear Chuck,
>>
>> These were my first sketches. I'm sorry I sent it in such a draft form
>> but I
>> needed a first feedback and I got it: it is indeed too big.
>>
>> Well, I guess I'll have to wait a little before thinking of being a
>> Fernand
>> Braudel of the movie history :)
>>
>> More precisely, I will restrain the subject (time & place) this way:
>>
>> the representation of the proletariat in films in the age of its
>> conceptual
>> decline (in Communist Parties discourses as well as in the mainstream),
>> i.e.
>>> from the mid-70's to end 80's in western Europe (France, Italy and
>> West-Germany even if there were no official Communist party in the GDR).
>>
>> regarding Jacques Ranciere, he wrote on cinema some very interesting
>> articles
>> on 1900 (Bertolucci) for instance, trying to articulate the discourse of
>> the
>> film with the current at that time Historical Compromise plans of the
>> French
>> and Italian CPs. That's the kind of literature among his other books I'm
>> reading for my project (I paid my duty to Marx, Engels and Lenin some
>> years ago).
>>
>>
>> thanks again for any advice.
>>
>> Pierre-Emmanuel
>>
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