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What exactly is Marxist Film Theory? (lemmygrad.ml)

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I'm loosely aware that there's a Marxist Film Theory school, and that obviously there were many filmmakers and theorists who were Marxists in history, but I can't wrap my head around how one would specifically apply Marxism to film critique and production.

I also can't find any understandable explanation. Could somebody ELI5?

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

I've tried looking into it as well, and my understanding is that it's just a fluid term to describe films influenced by Marxist perspectives, or analysis of films that focuses on class struggle, the working class, contradictions of capitalism, material conditions, etc. It's a sort of catch-all. At least that's my reading of it.