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Cinema of Crisis : Film and Contemporary Europe / Thomas Austin, Angelos Koutsourakis.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2022]Copyright date: ©2020Description: 1 online resource (328 p.) : 20 B/W illustrationsContent type:
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ISBN:
  • 9781474448505
  • 9781474448529
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 791.43/655 23
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  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- List of Figures -- List of Contributors -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- 1. Aesthetics of Crisis: Art Cinema and Neoliberalism -- 2. Beyond Neoliberalism? Gift Economies in the Films of the Dardenne Brothers -- 3. The Resurgence of Modernism and its Critique of Liberalism in the Cinema of Crisis -- 4. Post-Fordism in Active Life, Industrial Revolution and The Nothing Factory -- 5. Re-evaluating Crisis Politics in the Work of Aku Louhimies -- 6. Crisis of Cinema/Cinema of Crisis: The Car Crash and the Berlin School -- 7. Representing and Escaping the Crises of Neoliberalism: Veiko Õunpuu’s Films and Methods -- 8. The Future is Past, the Present Cannot be Fixed: Ken Loach and the Crisis -- 9. It Could Happen to You: Empathy and Empowerment in Iberian Austerity Cinema -- 10. The Double Form of Neoliberal Subjugation: Crisis on the Eastern European Screen -- 11. Housing Problems: Britain’s Housing Crisis and Documentary -- 12. Miserable Journeys, Symbolic Rescues: Refugees and Migrants in the Cinema of Fortress Europe -- 13. Frontlines: Migrants in Hungarian Documentaries in the 2010s -- 14. Mongrel Attunement in White God -- 15. Labour and Exploitation by Displacement in Recent European Film -- 16. A Hushed Crisis: The Visual Narratives of (Eastern) Europe’s Antiziganism -- Bibliography -- Index
Summary: Investigates contemporary European cinema’s response to the challenges posed to Europe by economic/political crisesOffers the first book-length investigation of European cinema’s response to the economic crisisProvides a survey of cinemas that have not received much critical attention from scholarship. In other words, this is one of the few books on European cinema that features many essays on Eastern European films and filmmakersExplores a long view of the crisis that can offer a better understanding of questions of politics and representation in contemporary European CinemaWatch a video of Thomas Austin discussing Cinema of CrisisCinema of Crisis: Film and Contemporary Europe explores the politics and aesthetics of filmmaking across a continent in flux. This urgent and necessary collection brings together scholars from Spain to Estonia, Hungary to Britain, in order to trace European filmmakers’ diverse responses to the interlinked upheavals and emergencies of the past three decades. Covering topics such as the collapse of the eastern bloc; deindustrialisation; the 2008 crash and the eurozone debt crisis; austerity and neoliberalism, as well as ‘Fortress Europe’ and the ‘refugee crisis’, this book investigates a range of audiovisual forms, including documentaries, the work of arthouse auteurs, and videos posted on YouTube. It engages in highly topical debates in political and aesthetic spheres, and explores key interfaces between the two."
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Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- List of Figures -- List of Contributors -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- 1. Aesthetics of Crisis: Art Cinema and Neoliberalism -- 2. Beyond Neoliberalism? Gift Economies in the Films of the Dardenne Brothers -- 3. The Resurgence of Modernism and its Critique of Liberalism in the Cinema of Crisis -- 4. Post-Fordism in Active Life, Industrial Revolution and The Nothing Factory -- 5. Re-evaluating Crisis Politics in the Work of Aku Louhimies -- 6. Crisis of Cinema/Cinema of Crisis: The Car Crash and the Berlin School -- 7. Representing and Escaping the Crises of Neoliberalism: Veiko Õunpuu’s Films and Methods -- 8. The Future is Past, the Present Cannot be Fixed: Ken Loach and the Crisis -- 9. It Could Happen to You: Empathy and Empowerment in Iberian Austerity Cinema -- 10. The Double Form of Neoliberal Subjugation: Crisis on the Eastern European Screen -- 11. Housing Problems: Britain’s Housing Crisis and Documentary -- 12. Miserable Journeys, Symbolic Rescues: Refugees and Migrants in the Cinema of Fortress Europe -- 13. Frontlines: Migrants in Hungarian Documentaries in the 2010s -- 14. Mongrel Attunement in White God -- 15. Labour and Exploitation by Displacement in Recent European Film -- 16. A Hushed Crisis: The Visual Narratives of (Eastern) Europe’s Antiziganism -- Bibliography -- Index

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Investigates contemporary European cinema’s response to the challenges posed to Europe by economic/political crisesOffers the first book-length investigation of European cinema’s response to the economic crisisProvides a survey of cinemas that have not received much critical attention from scholarship. In other words, this is one of the few books on European cinema that features many essays on Eastern European films and filmmakersExplores a long view of the crisis that can offer a better understanding of questions of politics and representation in contemporary European CinemaWatch a video of Thomas Austin discussing Cinema of CrisisCinema of Crisis: Film and Contemporary Europe explores the politics and aesthetics of filmmaking across a continent in flux. This urgent and necessary collection brings together scholars from Spain to Estonia, Hungary to Britain, in order to trace European filmmakers’ diverse responses to the interlinked upheavals and emergencies of the past three decades. Covering topics such as the collapse of the eastern bloc; deindustrialisation; the 2008 crash and the eurozone debt crisis; austerity and neoliberalism, as well as ‘Fortress Europe’ and the ‘refugee crisis’, this book investigates a range of audiovisual forms, including documentaries, the work of arthouse auteurs, and videos posted on YouTube. It engages in highly topical debates in political and aesthetic spheres, and explores key interfaces between the two."

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In English.

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