1. Marx on Art, Ideology, and Technology Reading  Selections from Marx under the headings 1) Historical Materialism and the Critique of Ideology and 2) History, Art, and the Bourgeois Epoch Lecture Marx’s Relevance to Understanding Cinema Clips from the Pioneers of Cinema Edison Lumiere Brothers Meliers Discussion  Make your entries for Session 1 in the “Discussions” page of our Blackboard Site

1. Marx on Art, Ideology, and Technology

Reading

Selections from Marx under the headings 1) Historical Materialism and the Critique of Ideology and 2) History, Art, and the Bourgeois Epoch

Lecture

Clips from the Pioneers of Cinema

Edison

Lumiere Brothers

Meliers

You are welcome to watch all 7 parts of this film on the Lumiere Brothers, but this is the only one that is required

Discussion

Make your entries for Session 1 in the “Discussions” page of our Blackboard Site