Marxism & Cinema: Daniel Fairfax
This piece was originally published in French at http://revueperiode.net/guide-de-lecture-marxisme-et-cinema/. “Of all the arts,” Vladimir Lenin reportedly claimed, “the most important for us is the cinema.” An invention of the modern bourgeoisie, cinema is the only art form whose genesis is contemporaneous with that of capitalism, and over the course of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries,