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Toronto New Wave Cinema and the Anarchist-Apocalypse - David Christopher

Toronto New Wave Cinema and the Anarchist-Apocalypse

Buch | Hardcover
296 Seiten
2025
Manchester University Press (Verlag)
978-1-5261-8836-6 (ISBN)
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This book explores the Toronto New Wave, a group of avant-garde filmmakers working in Canada from the 1980s and into the new millennium whose innovative film works share significant affinities with anarchist themes and aesthetics -- .
The Toronto New Wave (TNW) comprises a group of avant-garde filmmakers working in Canada from the 1980s and into the new millennium whose innovative film works share significant affinities with anarchist themes and aesthetics. Several of the TNW filmmakers openly identify as anarchists and/or acknowledge a debt to anarchism in their production of highly apocalyptic narratives as part of their cinematic political projects. However, recognition of anarchism’s progressive apocalyptic theoretical relevance has yet to be substantially taken up by scholarship in cinema analysis. This analysis introduces an anarchist-inflected analytical methodology to understand the apocalyptic-revelatory political work these films attempt to accomplish in the perceptual space between the filmic texts and both their auteurs and potential viewers, and to re-locate the TNW within cinema history as an ongoing phenomenon with new significance in an apocalyptic era of digital distribution. -- .

David Christopher is Lecturer of Popular Screen Cultures at the University of Leicester -- .

Introduction: TNW and the anarchist-apocalypse
1 Cronenberg and the anarchist-apocalypse effect
2 The McKellar cohort – kissing this world goodbye
3 Mettler v. Cronenberg and the anarchist-apocalyptic critique of cybernetic technology– surveillance and subjectivity
4 Vincenzo Natali’s anarchist-apocalypse and the critique of industrial technology– class-based incarceration
5 Anarchist-queering the apocalypse – Greyson, Fitzgerald, LaBruce
6 Anarchist-gendering the apocalypse – Rozema and Podeswa
7 The neo-TNW– zombies and the End of Time
Conclusion: Anarchist-apocalypse in the TNW and beyond
Appendix: Apocalyptic sentiments in the history of anarchist philosophy
References
Index -- .

Erscheint lt. Verlag 3.6.2025
Zusatzinfo 50 black and white illustrations (some in parts)
Verlagsort Manchester
Sprache englisch
Maße 156 x 234 mm
Themenwelt Kunst / Musik / Theater Film / TV
Sozialwissenschaften Kommunikation / Medien Medienwissenschaft
ISBN-10 1-5261-8836-8 / 1526188368
ISBN-13 978-1-5261-8836-6 / 9781526188366
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