Mapping precarity in contemporary cinema and television 1st ed.

Author

• Sticchi, Francesco

Additional Author(s)

-

Publisher

Cham, Switzerland : Springer International Publishing, 2021

Language

English

ISBN

9783030632618

Series

Subject(s)

• ANXIETY ON TELEVISION
• MOTION PICTURES--PHILOSOPHY

Notes

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Abstract

This book examines a corpus of films and TV series released since the global financial crisis, addressing them as emblematic expressions of our age of precarity. The analysis of the motifs and characters of these case studies is built around notions originating from Mikhail Bakhtin’s literary theory and, in particular, the concept of chronotope, affirming the material and dynamic connection between form and content in artistic experience. This book observes how precarious lives are enacted in forms of spatio-temporal compositions which carry conceptual and ethical challenges for their viewers. This book falls within the film-philosophy framework and, although primarily directed to an academic audience, it provides an interdisciplinary account of the notion of cinematic precarity. It puts the embodied analysis of viewers’ ethical participation in close dialogical relationship with a philosophical and sociological examination of current dynamics of inequality and exclusion.

Physical Dimension

Number of Page(s)

1 online resource (x, 261 p.)

Dimension

-

Other Desc.

ill.

Summary / Review / Table of Content

Part I. Anxiety. Introduction : a film-philosophy for the age of precarity --
Sorry to bother you : visualising the (embodied) soul at work --
From welfare to workfare : I, Daniel Blake and The measure of a man --
Fish tank : cinematic performances of femininity --
Himizu : the precarisation of education and social relations --
Black mirror and Nosedive : becoming algorithm --
Part II. Depression. Kelly Reichardt : film chronotopes of the precarious Northwest --
Italian peripheral cinema : Boys cry and Don't be bad --
Gig workers and emotional labour : Sorry we missed you, Araby, Two days, One night --
Social reproduction and cinematic care-work : the cases of Roma and The chambermaid --
China is purest capitalism : the cinema of Jia Zhangke --
Part III. Expulsion/Extinction. Parasite, or the economy of massacre --
Border as method and precarious cinematic citizenships : Mediterranea, Wind River, and Junction 48 --
Extraction and confinement in Show me a hero and Orange is the new black --
Expulsed childhoods : A ciambra and The Florida project --
Cinematic memories of an infected planet : Beasts of the Southern wild.

Exemplar(s)

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