Law and Film Book

I think this is a very good groundwork for a Marxist critique of cinema and the image/commodity. beller claims academic theory has lagged behind in this, and I think it's true that many regular folks have had scorn for film as a social production line ready to manufacture the dialogue of the working class but also profit past work hours.

After reading a very different book on cinema (bell hook's Reel to Real, which is about black representation and its possibility) I would like to see what Beller has to say about anti-colonial representations in radical African-American films. hooks too sees possibility in cinema for consciousness raising, but her writing focuses on the white supremacist gaze of the camera and how radical individuals can overcome this to produce "visionary Coltrane", a decolonized black experience.