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Thanks for the reply and I don't know all that much about Harry Alan Potamkin but love the idea of someone who straddles the divide between a film critic doing film criticism and a film reviewer who gives opinions without acknowledging academic film theory. In that vein, I think Robin Wood was quite insightful and so was Peter Biskind, although I don't know if I'd term either Marxist. Doug Kellner and Fred Jameson are a couple of the bigger names that I would include as explicitly Marxist. The whole of the psycho-analytic Marxism of the members of Screen in the 70's and 80's such as Jean-Luc Comolli, Jean Paul Narboni, Laura Mulvey, and those who work(ed) with apparatus theory would be on my list. So would those using suture theory, but that is more academic and not mass market. More currently, Bill Nichols, Rick Berg, Steven Ross, Jane Gaines come to mind as well as those associated with the Union for Democratic Communications such as Steve Macek, Lee Artz, and Dana Cloud. Members of the Society for Cinema and Media Studies class caucus are mostly Marxist or at least Marxist sympathetic with Pat Keeton, Terri Ginsberg and all using Marxist theories to guide their work. None of this are mass market, but fairly accessible to those who are interested in film theory. I don't really know of any film reviewer who is using Marxist film theories in the way Dave Zirin uses Marxist theories to critique sport. Although there are those who may have sympathies or allegiance to Marxism, actually using Marxist theories from those above or from Marxist literature is rare, to say the least. Henry Giroux is probably the closest I can think of right now... _________________________________________________________ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
