Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: structuralism

["ann li" <annzl@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

"....but the main left scholars retreated into either
> atheoretical social history during the 1980s or policy-wonking
> consultancies during the 1990s. Most dropped their faddish radical
> proclivities in due course. 'From the grassroots to the classroots'
> is how we mock our older ex-neomarxist brothers.
> "

Sounds all too familiar. Although I found that while as some socialists
would say: "The film exudes much of the commercial opportunism which
currently dominates the European and American film industry" (
http://www.wsws.org/articles/2001/feb2001/ber1-f22.shtml), I thought that
"Enemy at the Gates" had some formal elements when viewed from a film
structuralism perspective that are useful in a Benjaminian(sic) context, if
only they could be presented in a wider forum particularly on the role of
propaganda, base-superstructure social relations, historicism etc. From
classroots back to grassroots, perhaps?

Ann (of the 1000 fatal chronological flaws or methodological muddles )