The Public Life of Cinema

Conflict and Collectivity in Austerity Greece

Toby Lee (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

210 Seiten

2020
University of California Press (Verlag)
978-0-520-37902-2 (ISBN)

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Is culture a luxury? In this era of austerity, the value of the arts has been a topic of heated debate in Greece, where the country’s economic troubles have led to drastic cuts in public funding and much contention over the significance of cultural institutions and government-funded arts initiatives. At issue in these debates are larger questions regarding the very notions of publicness, hierarchies of value, and functions of the state that structure collective life. Beginning with the Thessaloniki International Film Festival, The Public Life of Cinema tracks this turbulence as it unfolded in the Greek film world in the early years of the crisis. Investigating the different forms of citizenship and collectivity being negotiated in cinema’s social spaces, this book considers how the arts and cultural production may illuminate the changing conditions of, and possibilities for, public and collective life in the neoliberal era.

Toby Lee is Associate Professor in the Department of Cinema Studies at New York University.

List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Note on Translation and Transliteration

Introduction: "Is Culture a Luxury?"
1. Locating the Festival
2. Forms of Publicness
3. Histories of Conflict and Collectivity
4. Dissensus and Its Limits
5. The Value of Mereness

Notes
Bibliography
Index

Erscheinungsdatum	26.11.2020
Zusatzinfo	6 b-w photographs
Verlagsort	Berkerley
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	318 g
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Film / TV
	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Zeitgeschichte
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Kommunikation / Medien ► Medienwissenschaft
ISBN-10	0-520-37902-0 / 0520379020
ISBN-13	978-0-520-37902-2 / 9780520379022
Zustand	Neuware