From Self-fulfilment to Survival of the Fittest

Work in European Cinema from the 1960s to the Present
1. Auflage 2020
ISBN: 978-1-78920-813-9
Verlag: Berghahn Books

Buch, Englisch, 312 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 455 g

Contrary to the assumption that Western and Eastern European economies and cinemas were very different from each other, they actually had much in common. After the Second World War both the East and the West adopted a mixed system, containing elements of both socialism and capitalism, and from the 1980s on the whole of Europe, albeit at an uneven speed, followed the neoliberal agenda. This book examines how the economic systems of the East and West impacted labor by focusing on the representation of work in European cinema. Using a Marxist perspective, it compares the situation of workers in Western and Eastern Europe as represented in both auteurist and popular films, including those of Tony Richardson, Lindsay Anderson, Jean-Luc Godard, Andrzej Wajda, DušanMakavejev, Jerzy Skolimowski, the Dardenne Brothers, Ulrich Seidl and many others.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Mazierska, Ewa

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Theater- und Filmwissenschaft | Andere Darstellende Künste Filmwissenschaft, Fernsehen, Radio Filmtheorie, Filmanalyse
• Geisteswissenschaften Theater- und Filmwissenschaft | Andere Darstellende Künste Filmwissenschaft, Fernsehen, Radio Filmgeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Illustrations

Acknowledgements

Introduction

Chapter 1.Homo Faber and the Work of Cinema

Chapter 2. The 1960: In Search of Self- Fulfilment

Chapter 3. The 1970s: Seeking Change

Chapter 4. The 1980s: Learning to Survive

Chapter 5. The 1990s, the 2000s and Beyond: Moving towards the Unknown

Conclusions: Towards the New Cinema of Work and Idleness

Notes

Bibliography

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Mazierska, Ewa
Ewa Mazierska is Professor of Film Studies at the School of Journalism, Media and Performance, University of Central Lancashire. Her publications include European Cinema and Intertextuality: History, Memory, Politics (Palgrave Macmillan, 2011), Jerzy Skolimowski: The Cinema of a Nonconformist (Berghahn, 2010), Masculinities in Polish, Czech and Slovak Cinema (Berghahn, 2008) and with Laura Rascaroli,Crossing New Europe: The European Road Movie (Wallflower, 2006) and From Moscow to Madrid: Postmodern Cities, European Cinema (I.B. Tauris, 2003). She is principal editor of the journal Studies in Eastern European Cinema.