Agitprop

Description AgitProp is a podcast discussing Marxist approaches to art and culture. The show is written and performed by James Bell. In celebration of the centenary of the Bolshevik revolution, this episode looks at a masterpiece of Soviet cinéma — Sergei Eisenstein’s October — in detail. We’ll take a look at the history portrayed by Eisenstein, alongside the film’s context and its artistic technique. If you would like to support this work, please donate using the link below. Any donation, no matter how small, would be an enormous help. You can follow me on Twitter for more regular updates on the link below too. The sources for this episode are included with its script. Script: https://tinyurl.com/y7wf3v78 Donate: paypal.me/jrbml Twitter: twitter.com/GlumBird Contents: Introduction [00:00:00] Part one: From February to October [00:01:30] Part two: The October controversy [00:49:27] Part three: Eisenstein’s technique [01:02:31] Part four: Approaching Eisenstein’s dialectic [01:13:21] Part five: Marxism

AgitProp is a podcast discussing Marxist approaches to art and culture. The show is written and performed by James Bell. This episode covers the history of US horror film between 1974 and 1985, referred to as the ‘golden age of US horror film’. This decade saw the release of many of giants of the genre: The Texas Chain Saw Massacre, Halloween, Alien and The Shining to name but a few. Crucially, this period saw a sharp rise and fall in the use of horror as a form of political commentary. In this episode, we ask the question: “Why?” If you would like to support this work, please donate when downloading or in the link below. Any donation, no matter how small, would be an enormous help. You can follow me on Twitter for more regular updates on the link below too. Script: http://tinyurl.com/y9kg6oza Donate: www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_s-xclick&hosted_button_id=VYMC6FE74RK8G Twitter: twitter.com/GlumBird Contents: Introduction [00:00] Part one: Horror as social fear [00:53] Part two: Contextualis