Slides 7: Marxist film analysis

class struggle

conflict between rich and working class

ideology

ruling-class beliefs; films reinforce or challenge them

alienation

capitalism disconnects workers from labor, society, and each other

commodity fetishism 

goods appear more important than the labour that created them 

socialist realism

soviet state doctrine → idealised depictions of workers and socialist progress

hegemony

cultural dominance of ruling class

false consiousness 

workers accept beliefs that harm their own interests 

reification

people treated like objects under capitalism