Essai de sociologie du cinéma: Morgan ou l'impossible révolution

In Essai de sociologie du cinéma: Morgan ou l’impossible révolution, Annie Goldmann and Jacques Leenhardt examine Karel Reisz’s film Morgan: A Suitable Case for Treatment within a framework of sociological and Marxist film analysis. Drawing on Lucien Goldmann’s genetic structuralism, they interpret the protagonist’s revolutionary aspirations as structurally doomed within the ideological and institutional conditions of late capitalism. The film becomes a case study demonstrating how cinematic narratives absorb, neutralize, or aestheticize radical critique. The authors ultimately argue that modern cinema reflects social contradictions but rarely enables genuine revolutionary transformation.