Film and the anarchist imagination / Richard Porton.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Porton, Richard, author.

Contributor:

JSTOR (Online Service)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Anarchism in motion pictures.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (x, 338 pages)

Edition:

Expanded second edition.

Place of Publication:

Urbana : University of Illinois Press, [2020]

System Details:

text file

Summary:

Hailed since its initial release, Film and the Anarchist Imagination offers the authoritative account of films featuring anarchist characters and motifs. Richard Porton delves into the many ways filmmakers have portrayed anarchism's long traditions of labor agitation and revolutionary struggle. While acknowledging cinema's predilection for ludicrous anarchist stereotypes, he focuses on films that, wittingly or otherwise, reflect or even promote workplace resistance, anarchist pedagogy, self-emancipation, and anti-statist insurrection. Porton ranges from the silent era to the classics Zéro de Conduite and Love and Anarchy to contemporary films like The Nothing Factory while engaging the works of Jean Vigo, Jean-Luc Godard, Lina Wertmüller, Yvonne Rainer, Ken Loach, and others. For this updated second edition, Porton reflects on several new topics, including the negative portrayals of anarchism over the past twenty years and the contemporary embrace of post-anarchism.

Contents:

1 Anarchism and Cinema: Representation and Self-Representation p. 9

2 Cinema, Anarchism, and Revolution: Heroes, Martyrs, and Utopian Moments p. 60

3 Anarcho-Syndicalism versus the "Revolt against Work" p. 110

4 Film and Anarchist Pedagogy p. 154

5 The Elusive Anarchist Aesthetic p. 209.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Electronic reproduction. New York Available via World Wide Web.

Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on November 02, 2020).

Other Format:

Print version: Porton, Richard. Film and the anarchist imagination

ISBN:

9780252052217

0252052218

Publisher Number:

40030178765

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