Althusser and Pasolini Philosophy, Marxism, and Film
Agon Hamza offers an in-depth analysis of the main thesis of Louis Althusser’s philosophical enterprise alongside a clear, engaging dissection of Pier Paolo Pasolini’s most important films. There is a philosophical, religious, and political relation
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Philosophy, Marxism, and Film
Agon Hamza
Althusser and Pasolini
Agon Hamza
Althusser and Pasolini Philosophy, Marxism, and Film
Agon Hamza Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts Ljubljana, Slovenia
ISBN 978-1-137-56651-5 ISBN 978-1-137-56652-2 DOI 10.1057/978-1-137-56652-2
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To Gabriel Tupinambá, my Party member comrade…for now!
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
I want to thank Stojan Pelko, Geoff Pfeifer, Sead Zimeri, Todd McGowan, Gabriel Tupinambá, Serene John-Richards, Simon Hajdini, Lidija Šumah, and Frank Ruda for discussing and reading various chapters of this book. I want to thank Phil Getz and Alexis Nelson from Palgrave for their immense help and guidance.
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CONTENTS
1
Introduction: Althusser and Pasolini
1
Part I On Althusser
11
2
Contextualization
13
3
Periodization
25
4
Taking Sides: Hegel or Spinoza?
29
5
Structural Causality
39
6
Althusser Before Althusser: From Christianity to Communism
45
7
Marxists’ Prehistory
47
8
Proletariat of Human Condition Versus the Proletariat of Labor
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Christian Materialism
59
10
Antiphilosophy
63
11
Definition of Ideology
67
12
Epistemological Break
73
13
Interpellation
79
14
State Apparatuses
89
15
Church as an Ideological State Apparatus
97
16
Althusser’s Politics
9
103
Part II The Gospel According to Althusser
111
17
Setting the Stage
113
18
Camera as an Ideological Apparatus
115
19
Film as a Commodity
119
20
Representation
123
21
The Christian Reality
133
22
Religious Suspension of the Theological
137
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Religious-Political
143
24
Class Struggl
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