List of Figures Notes on Contributors Introduction; Ewa Mazierska and Lars Kristensen 1. The Dialectical Image: Kant, Marx and Adorno; Mike Wayne 2. The Utopian Function of Film Music; Johan Siebers 3. Bloch on Film as Utopia: Terence Davies' Distant Voices, Still Lives ; Ian Fraser 4. 'But Joe, it's 'Hour of Ecstasy'': A Materialist Revaluation of Fritz Lang's You and Me ; Iris Luppa 5. Laughing Matters: Four Marxist Takes on Film Comedy; Jakob Ladegaard 6. Workerist Film Humour; Dennis Rothermel 7. Alienated Heroes: Marxism and the Czechoslovak New Wave; Peter Hames 8. The Work and the Rights of the Documentary Protagonist; Silke Panse 9. Amateur Digital Filmmaking and Capitalism; William Brown 10. Citizen: Marx/Kane; John Hutnyk 11. The Meanings of History and the Uses of Translation in News from Ideological Antiquity - Marx/Eisenstein/The Capital (Video 2008) by Alexander Kluge; Ewa Mazierska 12. Marx for Children: Moor and the Ravens of London and Hans Röckle and the Devil ; Martin Brady Index