Mapping Precarity in Contemporary Cinema and Television

Chronotopes of Anxiety, Depression, Expulsion/Extinction

AvFrancesco Sticchi

Häftad, Engelska, 2022

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Beskrivning

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.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2022-02-12
Mått:148 x 210 x 25 mm
Vikt:370 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:261
Förlag:Springer Nature Switzerland AG
ISBN:9783030632632

Utforska kategorier

Scenkonst och film inom Kultur
Film inom Kultur

Mer om författaren

Francesco Sticchi works as Lecturer at Oxford Brookes University, UK, and at the SAE Institute. He is the author of Melancholy Emotion in Contemporary Cinema: A Spinozian Analysis of Film Experience (2019).

Innehållsförteckning

Introduction.- A Film-Philosophy for the Age of Precarity.- The Economy of Precarity.- Anxious, Depressed, Disposable/Extinct Lives on Screen.- Is There Something Our Bodies Can Do?.- Chapter Outlines and Limitations.- Part 1: Anxiety.- 1.1 Visualising the (Embodied) Soul at Work.- 1.2 From Welfare to Workfare Through Cinema.- 1.3 Cinematic Performances of Femininity.- 1.4 I Can Be the Best of ‘Me’.- 1.5 Becoming Algorithm.- Part 2: Depression.- 2.1 Film Chronotopes of the Precarious Northwest.- 2.2 Italian Peripheral Cinema.- 2.3 Gig Workers and Emotional Labour.- 2.4 Social Reproduction in Cinematic Care-Work.- 2.5 China is Purest Capitalism.- Part 3: Expulsion/Extinction.- 3.1 The Economy of Massacre at the Movies.- 3.2 Precarious Cinematic Citizenship.- 3.3 Differential Inclusion in TV series.- 3.4 Expulsed Childhoods.- 3.5 Visual Memories of a Dead World.- Conclusion: Cinematic Futures.