Word: dialecticism
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Ali shifted gears smoothly in addressing himself to his topic, "The Purpose of Life," a subject chosen because of its universal relevance and treated it more as a dynamic than as a dialectic. The premise of his 35 minute lecture was that "every intelligent person comes to a stage in...
In the political dialectic it can be said that the veterans are unsophisticated. They are the movement's hard-hats. They speak against the war not from their heads but from their guts.
Images: Solanas develops social contradictions by means fundamentally different from those of the other major theorists of the militant cinema, Jean-Luc Godard, who phrases this problem as the necessity to build simple, anti-realist images in order to build a purely dialectical and coherent political analysis. La Hora de...
Believing in the redemption of physical reality, then, is not at issue in La Hora de los Hornos, since no such feat is attempted. The images generally stand in a disembodied, figurative relation to the sounds doing the analyzing. Rather than extending these specialized intellectual principles into a Godardian dialectic...
PROBABLY the most important early influences on Brazilian directors of the Cinema Novo movement, Rocha has commented, were the films and theoretical writings of Sergei Eisenstein and especially his concept of dialectical montage. This inter-cutting of images as "shocks" provides a language for expressing abstractly the confrontations between abstract...