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The cinema of the precariat : the exploited, underemployed, and temp workers of the world / Tom Zaniello.
Van Pelt Library PN1995.9.P6579 Z36 2020
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Zaniello, Tom, 1943- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Precarious employment in motion pictures.
- Working class in motion pictures.
- Poor in motion pictures.
- Physical Description:
- xiii, 190 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Bloomsbury Academic, 2020.
- Summary:
- "The first book to lay out the incredible range of the precariat (the vast global workforce, suffering from precarity) as well as a detailed report on the cinematic record of their work and lives"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Preface: Making invisible workers visible
- Introduction: Who are the precariat?
- Harvest of shame : the first series of films about the precariat
- Internal migration in China
- Daughters of a lesser god : women of the precariat
- Scavengers of the world, unite!
- Epidemic cinema and catastrophic mise en scène
- Precious cargo : the creation of wealth by the global precariat
- The cyberprecariat in the alt-future
- Video games as cinema : all work, all play
- The 1 percent : a top down conclusion : fifty films about capitalism in the twenty-first century
- The 99 percent : a bottom-up conclusion : alt-labor and organizing the unorganized.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Other Format:
- Online version: Zaniello, Tom, 1943- Cinema of the precariat.
- ISBN:
- 9781501349201
- 1501349201
- OCLC:
- 1140352378
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