Cinema of crisis : film and contemporary Europe /

Cinema of crisis : film and contemporary Europe / edited by Thomas Austin and Angelos Koutsourakis. - Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, (c)2020. - 1 online resource (xi, 316 pages) : illustrations.

Includes bibliographies and index.

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

"This collection explores the politics and aesthetics of filmmaking across Europe in flux. It 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."--



9781474448529


Motion pictures--Social aspects--Europe.
Politics in motion pictures.
Social problems in motion pictures.


Electronic Books.

PN1993 / .C564 2020