The Cinema of the Precariat
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The Cinema of the Precariat

The Exploited, Underemployed, and Temp Workers of the World

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The Cinema of the Precariat

The Exploited, Underemployed, and Temp Workers of the World

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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.

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Publisher
Bloomsbury Academic
Year
2020
ISBN
9781501349225
Edition
1
Topic
Media & Performing Arts
Subtopic
Film History & Criticism

Table of contents

  1. Title Page
  2. Copyright Page
  3. Contents
  4. Figures
  5. Acknowledgments
  6. Preface
  7. Introduction
  8. Chapter 1: Harvest of Shame: The First Series of Films about the Precariat
  9. Chapter 2: Internal Migration in China
  10. Chapter 3: Daughters of a Lesser God: Women of the Precariat
  11. Chapter 4: Scavengers of the World, Unite!
  12. Chapter 5: Epidemic Cinema and Catastrophic Mise-en-Scène
  13. Chapter 6: Precious Cargo: The Creation of Wealth by the Global Precariat
  14. Chapter 7: The Cyberprecariat in the Alt-Future
  15. Chapter 8: Video Games as Cinema—All Work, All Play
  16. Chapter 9: The 1 Percent: A Top-Down Conclusion—Fifty Films about Capitalism in the Twenty-First Century
  17. Chapter 10: The 99 Percent: A Bottom-Up Conclusion—Alt-Labor and Organizing the Unorganized
  18. Bibliography
  19. Index