Mark Poster Quotes

United States, Professor
July 5, 1941 – October, 10, 2012.

Mark Poster (July 5, 1941 – October 10, 2012) was Professor Emeritus of History and Film and Media Studies at UC Irvine, where he also taught in the Critical Theory Emphasis. He was pivotal to "bringing French critical theory to the U.S., and went on to analyse contemporary media."

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

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- Question
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.

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- Good
- Attention
- Enemy

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

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

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

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- Revolution