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Screening Solidarity

By Helga Druxes

Screening Solidarity

By Helga Druxes

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Western neoliberalism is a predatory outgrowth of late capitalism that overvalues competition, transferring the laws of the market to human relationships. This book advances the argument that anti-neoliberal cinemas of Europe, the United States, and the Russian Federation imagine and visualize alternatives to the non-sovereign realities of a neoliberal workplace that unequivocally endorses dangerous risk-taking, self-optimizing neoliberal subjects, and corporate 'entrepreneurs of self.' Always at stake in the examination of neoliberalism's consequences is a human being who is indexed by race, gender, nation, ability, and economic performance.
Drawing on film theory, transnational social histories, critical race theory, and Marxist and Foucauldian interpretive models, this book rediscovers a cinema that imagines a social contract focused on the common good and ethical standards for the social state. Anti-neoliberal cinema empowers the viewer as agentive through narratives that detail resistance to Western neoliberal modes of living and working. These filmmakers dramatize the labor of making solidarity across different groups.
Product details
Binding:
Paperback
Edition:
1
Number of Pages:
256
Release Date:
2024-11-28
Publication Date:
2024-11-28
Publisher:
Bloomsbury Academic
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN13:
9798765101407
Weight:
376 g
Height:
152 cm
Width:
229 cm
Thickness:
14 cm
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