From Self-Fulfilment to Survival of the Fittest : Work in European Cinema from the 1960s to the Present / Ewa Mazierska.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Mazierska, Ewa, author.

Contributor:

Knowledge Unlatched, funder.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Performing arts.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (1 p.)

Place of Publication:

Berghahn Books 2015

[s.l.] : Berghahn Books, 2015.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Contrary to the assumption that Western and Eastern European economies and cinemas were very different from each other, they actually had much in common. After the Second World War both the East and the West adopted a mixed system, containing elements of both socialism and capitalism, and from the 1980s on the whole of Europe, albeit at an uneven speed, followed the neoliberal agenda. This book examines how the economic systems of the East and West impacted labor by focusing on the representation of work in European cinema. Using a Marxist perspective, it compares the situation of workers in Western and Eastern Europe as represented in both auteurist and popular films, including those of Tony Richardson, Lindsay Anderson, Jean-Luc Godard, Andrzej Wajda, Dušan Makavejev, Jerzy Skolimowski, the Dardenne Brothers, Ulrich Seidl and many others.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Illustrations

Acknowledgements

Introduction

CHAPTER 1 Homo Faber and the Work of Cinema

CHAPTER 2 The 1960s In Search of Self-fulfilment

CHAPTER 3 The 1970s Seeking Change

CHAPTER 4 The 1980s Learning to Survive

CHAPTER 5 The 1990s, the 2000s and Beyond Moving towards the Unknown

CONCLUSIONS Towards the New Cinema of Work and Idleness

Notes

Bibliography

Index

Notes:

CC BY-NC-ND

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Access Restriction:

Open Access Unrestricted online access