5 Quotes by Mark Poster

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

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

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

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

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.