Dusting off the tedium and ash deposited by Hollywood's recent spate of catastrophe movies, Evan Calder Williams takes aim at their world-affirming pessimism and calls for some real apocalypse

Peter Linebaugh, author of The London Hanged, was recently challenged by film-makers Anja Kirschner and David Panos over his ‘romanticised' account of the development of class consciousness in the first phase of finance ca

Untangling a chain of cinematic signifiers and taking Amos Vogel's book as a guide, the Celluloid Liberation Front subverts the Film as a Subversive Art exhibit at Zoo 2009

This film is dedicated to the gallant people of Afghanistan

 - Final credits of Rambo III

With Vera Chytilová's satirical feminist romp Daisies released on DVD this year, Iain Boal takes the opportunity to revisit the brief cultural explosion that was the Czech New Wave and one of its most original and irreverent contributions

The production of souls is more important than the production of tanks ... And therefore I raise my glass to you, cultural workers, the engineers of the human soul.

- Joseph Stalin, speaking at the home of Maxim Gorky, 26 October 1932

Heavily influenced by the Black Wave or dissident Yugoslav cinema of her childhood, artist Nada Prlja considers its unique balancing act between iconoclasm and idealism, individualism and communism to be exemplary. In an interview with Stefan Szczelkun, Prlja talks about the cultural context of communist Yugoslavia and its mutation into a consumer culture - a shift that her artwork pivots on