The Cinema of the Precariat

The Exploited, Underemployed, and Temp Workers of the World

Tom Zaniello (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

204 Seiten

2021
Bloomsbury Academic USA (Verlag)
978-1-5013-8584-1 (ISBN)

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The Cinema of the Precariat is the first book to lay out the incredible range of the precariat (the social class suffering from precarity) as well as a detailed report on the cinematic record of their work and lives.It discusses a thorough and definitive selection of more than 250 films and related visual media that take the measure of the precariat worldwide. For example, thousands of Haitians, including children, harvest sugar cane in the Dominican Republic (The Price of Sugar), while illegal Afghan refugees work in Iran (Delbaran). More familiar are the millions of Latino immigrants, legal or not, of all ages, that work in the United States (Food Chains).

Each chapter focuses on a sub-class of the precariat or a contested zone of labor or the evolving political manifestation of the struggles of the unorganized and the dispossessed. Among the hundreds of bewildering film choices available nowadays this book offers the reader reliable guidance to the films bringing to life the economic, political, and social dilemmas faced by millions of the world’s global workforce and their families.

Tom Zaniello is Professor Emeritus, having taught film and cultural studies, and directed the Honors Program at Northern Kentucky University, USA. He has been active as a film programmer for the Hill Center in Washington DC and for the London and North West (Liverpool) Labour Film Festivals. He recently published California’s Lamson Murder Mystery (2016), the story of the wrongful conviction of a Hollywood screenwriter for murder, along with Working Stiffs, Union Maids, Reds, and Riffraff: An Expanded Guide to Films about Labor, 2nd ed. (2003) and The Cinema of Globalization (2007).

Acknowledgements
List of Illustrations
Preface

Introduction

Chapter 1: Harvest of Shame: The First Series of Films about the Precariat
Chapter 2: Internal Migration in China
Chapter 3: Scavengers of the World, Unite!
Chapter 4: Epidemic Cinema and Catastrophic Mise en Scene
Chapter 5: Precious Cargo: Exploiting Minerals, Fossil Fuels, and Foodstuffs
Chapter 6: The Cyberprecariat in the Shadows of Utopia
Chapter 7: Out of the Gallery and Into the Street
Chapter 8: Video Games as Cinema: All Work, All Play
Chapter 9: Top Down--Business as Usual: Fifty Films about Capitalism in the 21st Century
Chapter 10: Bottom Up--A Conclusion: Alt-Labor and Organizing the Unorganized

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Index

Erscheinungsdatum	27.08.2021
Zusatzinfo	17 bw illus
Verlagsort	New York
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	286 g
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Film / TV
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Kommunikation / Medien ► Journalistik
	Wirtschaft
ISBN-10	1-5013-8584-4 / 1501385844
ISBN-13	978-1-5013-8584-1 / 9781501385841
Zustand	Neuware