Screening solidarity : neoliberalism and transnational cinemas / Helga Druxes, Alexandar Mihailovic, and Patricia Anne Simpson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Druxes, Helga, 1959- author.

Mihailovic, Alexandar, author.

Simpson, Patricia Anne, 1958- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Politics in motion pictures.

Neoliberalism in motion pictures.

Motion pictures--History--21st century.

Motion pictures.

Motion pictures--Political aspects.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (257 pages)

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Bloomsbury Academic, [2023]

System Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

Summary:

Western neoliberalism is a predatory outgrowth of late capitalism that overvalues competition, transferring the laws of the market to human relationships. This book advances the argument that anti-neoliberal cinemas of Europe, the United States, and the Russian Federation imagine and visualize alternatives to the non-sovereign realities of a neoliberal workplace that unequivocally endorses dangerous risk-taking, self-optimizing neoliberal subjects, and corporate 'entrepreneurs of self.' Always at stake in the examination of neoliberalism's consequences is a human being who is indexed by race, gender, nation, ability, and economic performance. Drawing on film theory, transnational social histories, critical race theory, and Marxist and Foucauldian interpretive models, this book rediscovers a cinema that imagines a social contract focused on the common good and ethical standards for the social state. Anti-neoliberal cinema empowers the viewer as agentive through narratives that detail resistance to Western neoliberal modes of living and working. These filmmakers dramatize the labor of making solidarity across different groups.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9798765101445

9798765101438

9788765101446

OCLC:

1377727883