Mark Poster Quotes

Mark Poster —

Mark Poster was Professor Emeritus of History and Film and Media Studies at UC Irvine, where he also taught in the Critical Theory Emphasis. Importantly he was pivotal to "bringing French critical theory to the U.S., and went on to analyse contemporary media.".. (wikipedia)

Today the family is being attacked and defended with equal vehemence.

Terrorism is in good part an effective government propaganda; it serves to deflect attention from governmental abuse toward a mostly imagined, highly dangerous outside enemy.

Film then does not promote socialist revolution in any consistent way.

So begins a question which has of late become more and more urgent: what is the relation of aesthetics to politics?

Film, therefore, is part of society, not distant from it, easy to experience for people regardless of class.