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Record Nr.

UNINA9910433238903321

Autore

Mazierska Ewa

Titolo

From self-fulfillment to survival of the fittest : work in European cinema from the 1960s to the present / / Ewa Mazierska

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berghahn Books, 2015

New York ; ; Oxford : , : Berghahn Books, , 2015

New York ; ; Oxford : , : Berghahn Books, , [2019]

©2015

ISBN

9781782384878

1782384871

9781789204742

1789204747

9781322950655

1322950652

9781782384861

1782384863

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (vii, 303 pages) : illustrations (black and white); digital file(s)

Disciplina

791.4

Soggetti

Work in motion pictures

Working class in motion pictures

Motion pictures - Europe - History - 20th century

Motion pictures - Europe - History - 21st century

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

"Open access ebook edition published in 2019" -- title page verso.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction -- Homo Faber and the work of cinema -- 2. The 1960s: in search of self-fulfilment -- 3. The 1970s: seeking change -- 4. The 1980s: learning to survive -- 5. The 1990s, the 2000s and beyond: moving towards the unknown -- Conclusions: towards the new cinema of work and idleness.

Sommario/riassunto

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.