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This is an 8 page paper that provides an overview of "La Haine". A Marxist criticism reveals key social themes of the work. Bibliography lists 6 sources.
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desire to learn about a culture, or from the standpoint of a more critical perspective, as one seeks to understand critical problems and issues within the culture. This is one
reason why a Marxist critical perspective lends itself so well to analysis of film. Because film necessarily conveys information about the values of the producing culture, it is of particular
interest to the Marxist cultural critic, who must examine how those assumptions and values are tied into the dominating class structure of the culture in question. For instance, if a
film projected material wealth and social status in a positive light, a Marxist critic might well put forth the criticism that the film stems from and is in turn perpetuating
the values of capitalism and class divisions based on material wealth. This, then, is the critical framework which will be used in this paper to analyze the French film, "La
Haine", as the work deals explicitly with questions of economic hardship and its effect on culture, the link between material poverty and violence, and the social forces which perpetuate these
conditions of class disparity. "La Haine" was directed by Mathieu Kassovitz, and was released in France during the mid-1990s, as a document of ongoing social struggles in disenfranchised urban
ghettos, or "banlieues" around Paris (Cartelli, 2008). The title of the work roughly translates to "Hatred", which is in turn a reference to an important thematic statement uttered by one
of the characters, Hubert, "La haine attire la haine", or, "hatred breeds hate"; this utterance is important to a thematic understanding of the work from the Marxist perspective as it
illustrates the cyclical process by which the class positions of the base and superstructure are perpetually reinforced. Being set in the banlieues, this is plainly a theme of significant importance
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