Kafkaesque Cinema / Angelos Koutsourakis.

Format:

• Book

Author/Creator:

• Koutsourakis, Angelos, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

• Motion pictures--History.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (322 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press Ltd, [2024]

Summary:

No detailed description available for "Kafkaesque Cinema".

Contents:

• Frontmatter
• Contents
• Figures
• Acknowledgements
• Notes on the Text
• Introduction
• Part I ‘Modernity’s Objective Spirit’
• Chapter 1 Anxious Humour and Alienating Labour
• Chapter 2 Bureaucracy
• Chapter 3 Social Alienation
• Chapter 4 The Work of Art as Alienating Labour: Barton Fink (1991) and the End of Jewish Modernity
• Part II Fascism and its Legacies
• Chapter 5 Fernando Arrabal and the Persistence of the Spanish Civil War
• Chapter 6 Memories from the Holocaust in Central Europe
• Chapter 7 Parables of Underdevelopment
• Part III Stalinist Terror
• Chapter 8 Memories from the Rákosi Era
• Chapter 9 Politicising the Absurd
• Chapter 10 Jewish Purges
• Part IV Late Capitalist Contradictions
• Chapter 11 Behaviourist Surveillance
• Chapter 12 Post-Fascism
• Chapter 13 The Anthropocene Crisis
• Epilogue
• Bibliography
• Index

Notes:

• Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
• Description based on print version record.
• Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-4744-9898-1