Document Type
Article
Abstract
[First paragraph]
In this essay we would like to sketch out a few notes outlining historical and theoretical trajectories of the confusing, and often confused, relationships between ideology, history and subjectivity in Marx, Marxism and post-Marxism. Marx and Engels' approach to ideology in The German Ideology (1845-46), spawned and influenced a variety of interpretations and philosophical positions from not only the numerous schools of Marxism proper, but also structuralism, semiotics and psychoanalysis up to the very raison d'être of discourse theory and new historicism. This reaching influence occurs only at the cost of contradiction, however, between Marxist factions -- disagreements which point back directly to the inconsistencies and ambiguities in Marx and Engels' assertions. Such trajectories, we argue, have constituted background philosophical tensions influencing the paradigm of critical discourses about cinema, conceived of generally as a linguistic practice and a cultural industry.
Repository Citation
Bertellini, Giorgio, and C. P. Sellors. "Breaking the Mimetic Contract: Notes on Ideology, Intersubjectivity, and Film Theory." Reconstruction: Studies in Contemporary Culture vol. 2, no. 1, 2002, pp. 1–18. https://digitalcommons.odu.edu/reconstruction/vol2/iss1/15