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Travis Wilkerson's film, *An Injury to One* (2002) uses this (and many other onscreen texts) to dig into the mining wars in Butte and the death of Frank Little. The film has little photographic evidence to use (only one shot of Little exists) but uses the text of Hammett's Red Harvest to explore the authors involvement with the Butte strike during this period. This historical backdrop of the Anaconda mines (which would later be bought by ARCO) foreshadows the ecological and economic devastation by big capital of the area as symbolized by the huge toxic open pit mining dump known as Butte Lake. Wilkerson's film is best described as a self-reflexive documentary whose Marxist sympathies are not didactically drawn, but build as the viewer must piece together ideological fragments as part of the visual film experience. This is done through the incomplete visual and onscreen texts that induce viewer participation. Notable is the inclusions of songs, whose lyrics are now sung, but only seen as on screen text that must be sung in the heads of the viewers to be complete. So rather than simply dumping information in the form of talking heads or moving lectures, the film experience itself is designed to create a class consciousness in sympathy for the workers then and now, linking the red-scares and capitalist exploitation of the past with those of today. Like *Maquilapolis: City of Factories* (Funari and De La Torre, 2006), these films move far away from complacent and conventional formal arrangements such as expository or participatory documentary modes that are easily digested into the political economy of mass media by requiring more than passive engagement and offering a political experiences when viewing film. http://www.tlaxcala-int.org/article.asp?reference=11448 * Injury To One * (full film) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WUQgFzkE3i0 *Maquilapolis: City of Factories* (Funari and De La Torre, 2006) (full film) _________________________________________________________ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com