Looking beyond neoliberalism : French and francophone Belgian cinema and the crisis / Martin O'Shaughnessy.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

O'Shaughnessy, Martin (Martin P.), author.

Series:

Political Cinemas

Political cinemas

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Motion pictures--France.

Motion pictures.

Motion pictures--Belgium.

Global Financial Crisis, 2008-2009, in motion pictures.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (x, 208 pages) : illustrations (black and white), digital, PDF file(s).

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, 2023.

Summary:

'Looking Beyond Neoliberalism' explores how cinema is responding to the economic crisis that sprang to public attention in 2008 and continues to shape our politics and societies. Bringing French and francophone Belgian films into dialogue with carefully selected theories, O'Shaughnessy develops insights and an analytical framework that will become important resources for other scholars of contemporary cinema.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Figures

Acknowledgements

Introduction

1 Audiard’s triumphant neoliberal subjects

2 Subjects in the chains of debt

3 The desperate search for the exit

4 The deconstructive materialism of Sciamma and Kechiche

5 The Dardennes’ unwitting gifts

6 Machinic enslavement and cinema’s machinic powers

Conclusion

Bibliography

Filmography

Index

Notes:

Previously issued in print: 2022.

Includes bibliographical references, filmography and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (viewed on June 30, 2023).

ISBN:

1-4744-4865-8

1-4744-4864-X

OCLC:

1353783186