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Screening Solidarity
Neoliberalism and Transnational Cinemas
Screening Solidarity
Neoliberalism and Transnational Cinemas
Description
Western neoliberalism is a predatory outgrowth of late capitalism that overvalues competition, transferring the laws of the market to human relationships. This book advances the argument that anti-neoliberal cinemas of Europe, the United States, and the Russian Federation imagine and visualize alternatives to the non-sovereign realities of a neoliberal workplace that unequivocally endorses dangerous risk-taking, self-optimizing neoliberal subjects, and corporate 'entrepreneurs of self.' Always at stake in the examination of neoliberalism's consequences is a human being who is indexed by race, gender, nation, ability, and economic performance.
Drawing on film theory, transnational social histories, critical race theory, and Marxist and Foucauldian interpretive models, this book rediscovers a cinema that imagines a social contract focused on the common good and ethical standards for the social state. Anti-neoliberal cinema empowers the viewer as agentive through narratives that detail resistance to Western neoliberal modes of living and working. These filmmakers dramatize the labor of making solidarity across different groups.
Table of Contents
Introduction: A Cinema Against Precarity and Predatory Neoliberalism
1. Working-Class Solidarity as Project in Contemporary Franco-Belgian Factory Films
Helga Druxes (Williams College, USA)
2. Arts of Resistance in the Post-Socialist Workplace
Patricia Anne Simpson (University of Nebraska-Lincoln, USA)
3. Fevered Dreams of Neoliberalism in Films Made for the Russian Market
Alexandar Mihailovic (Bennington College, USA)
4. The Neoliberalization of Russia in the Films of Andrei Zvyagintsev
Alexandar Mihailovic (Bennington College, USA)
5. Becoming Other: Neoliberalism and “Suboptimal” Bodies Patricia Anne Simpson (University of Nebraska-Lincoln, USA)
6. Debased Black Masculinity as an Engine for Neoliberal Economies in African American Cinema
Helga Druxes (Williams College, USA)
7. Aging Out of the American Workplace: Intentional Communities and the Lure of the Open Road
Helga Druxes (Williams College, USA)
Epilogue
Helga Druxes (Williams College, USA), Patricia Anne Simpson (University of Nebraska-Lincoln, USA), Alexandar Mihailovic (Bennington College, USA)
BIbliography
Index
Product details
| Published | 20 Apr 2023 |
|---|---|
| Format | Ebook (PDF) |
| Edition | 1st |
| Extent | 256 |
| ISBN | 9798765101438 |
| Imprint | Bloomsbury Academic |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
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