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Casualty Figures is not about the millions who died in the First World War

the oblivion into which he has now fallen affords the opportunity fora return to Althusser: a reassessment that advances beyond the unconsidered responses that Marxist commentators have often given to his work

It seems clear that the (provisional) disappearance of alternatives to capitalism plays its part in the universal attempt to revive ‘modernity’ as a social ideal

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A Short History of 'Cahiers du Cinéma' keyword-queer-theory Casualty Figures is not aboutCahiers du Cinma was the single most influential project in the history of film. Founded in 1951, it was responsible for establishing film as the seventh art, equal to literature, painting or music, and it revolutionized film making and writing. Its contributors would put their words into action: the likes of Godard, Truffaut, Rivette, Rohmer were to become some of the greatest directors of the age, their films part of the internationally celebrated