Althusser keyword-ruth-gilmore Two collections from the period

Two collections from the period

surveying over three centuries with magisterial command of the sources’

Originally published in the tumult of 1996

In his introduction

he dissects the idea of the oriental in western perceptions of Iranian cinema and details the way that film festivals and distribution in the west have shaped domestic output in Iran

Althusser keyword-ruth-gilmore Two collections from the periodIn the international renaissance of Marxist theory during the 1960s and early 1970s few projects generated as much excitement or controversy as Louis Althusser's 'return to Marx'. One of the most ambitious enterprises in the post war history of Marxism, Althusser's reconstruction of Marx's doctrine was heralded as a new start in some quarters, dismissed as a refurbished Stalinism in others. Today, more than twenty years after the appearance of his