ABSTRACT
The centrality of Marxism to the work of Inside Film has inevitably concentrated on the class antagonisms that the division of labor within a capitalist society entails. The utilization of Marxism as both theory and as method results in a materialist underpinning of the explanatory role of a radical pedagogy while simultaneously providing a methodological touchstone for the making of films. A radical pedagogy of film changes the parameters and shape of the framework in which learning takes place by including within that framework perspectives and experiences which, generally speaking, are negated or ignored. The significance of the films made by the Inside Film students is that they represent the perspective of lives that 'social conditions are rendering useless'. It is difficult to definitively name the components for a radical pedagogy of film, partly because one of the components of that radicalism is its contextualization.
