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Contemporary Cinema and Neoliberal Ideology
Edited by Ewa Mazierska and Lars Kristensen
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Book Presentation:
In this edited collection, an international ensemble of scholars examine what contemporary cinema tells us about neoliberal capitalism and cinema, exploring whether filmmakers are able to imagine progressive alternatives under capitalist conditions. Individual contributions discuss filmmaking practices, film distribution, textual characteristics and the reception of films made in different parts of the world. They engage with topics such as class struggle, debt, multiculturalism and the effect of neoliberalism on love and sexual behaviour. Written in accessible, jargon-free language, Contemporary Cinema and Neoliberal Ideology is an essential text for those interested in political filmmaking and the political meanings of films.
About the authors:
Ewa Mazierska is Professor of Film Studies at the School of Humanities and Social Sciences at the University of Central Lancashire. She published over twenty monographs and edited collections on film and popular music. Mazierska (with Kristensen) has also organised two conferences entitled 'Marx at the Movies', once in 2012 and again in 2015, which were devoted to the interface between the moving image and Marxism.
Lars Kristensen is Senior Lecturer in Media Arts, Aesthetics and Narration at the University of Skövde, Sweden, where he teaches moving image theory to game developers. His research focuses on Russian and Eastern European filmmaking as well as bicycle cinema, post-critique and theories of game and play. His publications have appeared in Studies in Eastern European Cinema, Games and Culture, Journal of Gaming and Virtual Worlds and Thesis Eleven.
Press Reviews:
"A polemical but also nuanced exploration of practices and representations of neoliberalism in contemporary cinema, the collection offers clarity, depth and specificity both in its conceptual framing and the case studies included. From Loach to American Independent Cinema, Greece to China, and amateur films to romcoms, the range and variety of contexts examined, and approaches adopted, will render the book into a key resource for the study of ideology and/in cinema."
—Dr. Lydia Papadimitriou, Reader in Film Studies, Liverpool John Moores University
See the publisher website: Routledge
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From Self-fulfilment to Survival of the Fittest (2020)
Work in European Cinema from the 1960s to the Present
Marxism and Film Activism (2018)
Screening Alternative Worlds
Dir. Ewa Mazierska and Lars Kristensen
Subject: Sociology
The Cinematic Bodies of Eastern Europe and Russia (2016)
Between Pain and Pleasure
Dir. Ewa Mazierska, Matilda Mroz and Elżbieta Ostrowska
Red Alert (2016)
Marxist Approaches to Science Fiction Cinema
Dir. Ewa Mazierska and Alfredo Suppia
Subject: Genre > Science Fiction
Masculinities in Polish, Czech and Slovak Cinema (2010)
Black Peters and Men of Marble
Crossing New Europe (2006)
Postmodern Travel and the European Road Movie
by Ewa Mazierska and Laura Rascaroli
The Cinema of Nanni Moretti (2004)
Dreams and Diaries
by Ewa Mazierska and Laura Rascaroli
Subject: Director > Nanni Moretti
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The Invisible Hand in Popular Culture (2012)
Liberty vs. Authority in American Film and TV
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Beyond Free Speech and Propaganda (2017)
The Political Development of Hollywood, 1907–1927
Subject: Silent Cinema
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