Work in Cinema [electronic resource] : Labor and the Human Condition /
Kerr, E.author.
Mazierska, Ewa,editor of compilation.
Cinema frequently depicts various types of work, but this representation is never straightforward. It depends on and reflects many factors, especially the place and time the film is made and the type of audience it addresses. Here, the contributors employ transnational and transhistorical perspectives to compare filmic depictions of work.
Includes index.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Cover; Half-Title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Introduction Work, Struggle, and Cinema; Part I Neoliberal Work; 1 Affective Labor and Alienation in Up in the Air; 2 Becoming Cinema: The Social Network , Exploitation in the Digital Age, and the Film Industry; 3 The New European Cinema of Precarity: A Transnational Perspective; 4 Acting as Value: Juliette Binoche in Michael Haneke's Code Unknown; Part II National and Transnational Cinemas; 5 The Trauma of Daedalus: The Labyrinth of Labor in Brazilian Cinema; 6 Beyond Work and Sex in Czech Cinema
7 Desensitized Migrants: Organized Crime Workers in David Cronenberg's Eastern Promises and Aleksei Balabanov's Stoker8 The Damnation of Labor in the Films of Béla Tarr; Part III Genre; 9 You Don't Have to Be Crazy to Work, But It Helps: Work in Comedies of the 1930s; 10 Work in Outer Space: Notes on Eastern European Science Fiction Cinema; 11 The Migrations of Factory Style: Work, Play, and Work-as-Play in Andy Warhol, Chantal Akerman and Apichatpong Weerasethakul; 12 Work in Bicycle Cinema: From Race Rider to City Courier; 13 Documentaries, Work, and Global Challenges; Notes on Contributors
Index
Cinema frequently depicts various types of work, but this representation is never straightforward. It depends on and reflects many factors, especially the place and time the film is made and the type of audience it addresses. Here, the contributors employ transnational and transhistorical perspectives to compare filmic depictions of work.
Motion pictures—History.
Social structure.
Social inequality.
Arts.
Motion pictures and television.
Cultural studies.
Communication.
Film History.
Social Structure, Social Inequality.
Arts.
Screen Studies.
Cultural Studies.
Media Studies.