BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Talks.cam//talks.cam.ac.uk// X-WR-CALNAME:Talks.cam BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:‘Triumph of the Real: From The Communist Manifesto to Jason Bour ne’ - Dr David Hickman - Senior lecturer in film &\; television produ ction Department of Theatre\, Film &\; Television University of York an d VF Wolfson College DTSTART:20141203T130000Z DTEND:20141203T140000Z UID:TALK55648@talks.cam.ac.uk CONTACT:Graham Allen DESCRIPTION:The release of Paul Greengrass’s The Bourne Supremacy in 200 4 was\, in one way\, the result of an odyssey through visual culture that started with The Communist Manifesto in 1848. \n \nSo how do we get from t he nineteenth century’s most famous (and picture-free) call for socialis t revolution to a Hollywood blockbuster? It wasn’t to do with anything M arx and Engels wrote. Rather\, it was what many assumed to be in the mani festo but actually wasn’t – and it was an absence only addressed half a century later\, in the prelude to the Russian Revolution.\n \nThe wider answer has to do with another kind of revolution – one that manifested i tself initially on cinema screens\, rather than in the supposed internal c ontradictions of capitalist economies. In the immediate aftermath of the Second World War\, cinematic realism was the most significant revolution i n visual culture since the late Renaissance. Not only did it carry along the Neo-Realists in Italy\, La Nouvelle Vague and and cinéma vérité in France\, Direct Cinema and urban realism in the US\, and Free Cinema and s ocial realism in Britain\; it also shaped the visual language of televisio n\, in a profound way\, in fiction and non-fiction.\n \nBut there is a dar k side to this revolution – one that has filmmakers in numerous national (and usually oppositional) cinemas struggling to break free.\n \n LOCATION:Combination Room\, Wolfson College END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR