Pictures of reality : aesthetics, politics, pleasure / Terry Lovell

By:

Lovell, Terry

Publication details: London : Bristish Film Institute, 1983Description: 111 pISBN:

0851701035 (pbk)

Summary: Recent developments in film theory have challenged the aesthetics of realism which has dominated marxist writings on art. They attempt to bring marxist aesthetics into alignment with contemporary modernism. This work is a critical examination of these theories, especially those influenced by Louis Althusser. It argues that marxism is based upon a realist theory of knowledge, but that this does not necessarily lead to realism in art. Realism tends to view art as a special kind of knowledge. But questions of pleasure, of audience involvement, and of politics, cut across the question of its relationship to knowledge and reality. (Font: Editor)

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Item type	Current library	Collection	Call number	Copy number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Book	Centre d' Informació i Documentació del CERC Sala	General	S 02022	1	Available (Disponible)		1900000127

Introduction -- 1. Marxism is a realism -- 2. Louis Althusser -- 3. Towards a (narrower) theory of ideology -- 4. Realis and marxist aesthetics I -- V. Realism and marxist aesthetics II -- Conclusion -- References -- Further reading

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