Title: The cinema of the precariat : the exploited, underemployed, and temp workers of the world /
Authors: Zaniello, Tom, 1943-
Year: 2020
Subjects: Precarious employment in motion pictures; Working class in motion pictures; Poor in motion pictures; Poor in motion pictures; Working class in motion pictures
Abstract: "The first book to lay out the incredible range of the precariat (the vast global workforce, suffering from precarity) as well as a detailed report on the cinematic record of their work and lives"--
Contents: Preface: Making invisible workers visible -- Introduction: Who are the precariat? -- Harvest of shame : the first series of films about the precariat -- Internal migration in China -- Daughters of a lesser god : women of the precariat -- Scavengers of the world, unite! -- Epidemic cinema and catastrophic mise en scene -- Precious cargo : the creation of wealth by the global precariat -- The cyberprecariat in the alt-future -- Video games as cinema : all work, all play -- The 1% : a top down conclusion -- fifty films about capitalism in the 21st century -- The 99% : a bottom up conclusion -- alt-labor and organizing the unorganized.