Precarity in European Film: Depictions and Discourses

Open Access Published by De Gruyter 2022

Precarity in European Film

Depictions and Discourses

Edited by: Elisa Cuter , Guido Kirsten and Hanna Prenzel

Volume 1 in the series Film, Class, Society

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110707816

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About this book

This volume brings together renowned scholars and early career-researchers in mapping the ways in which European cinema —whether arthouse or mainstream, fictional or documentary, working with traditional or new media— engages with phenomena of precarity, poverty, and social exclusion. It compares how the filmic traditions of different countries reflect the socioeconomic conditions associated with precarity, and illuminates similarities in the iconography of precarious lives across cultures. While some of the contributions deal with the representations of marginalized minorities, others focus on work-related precarity or the depictions of downward mobility. Among other topics, the volume looks at how films grapple with gender inequality, intersectional struggle, discriminatory housing policies, and the specific problems of precarious youth. With its comparative approach to filmic representations of European precarity, this volume makes a major contribution to scholarship on precarity and the representation of social class in contemporary visual culture.

Watch our talk with the editors Elisa Cuter, Guido Kirsten and Hanna Prenzel here: https://youtu.be/lKpD1NFAx2o

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Elisa Cuter, Guido Kirsten and Hanna Prenzel.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	I
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	V
Drawing a Map of Precarity in European Film: Preface and Overview Publicly Available Download PDF	IX
Studying the Cinema of Precarity An Introduction Guido Kirsten Open Access Download PDF	1
Precarious Narratives in French and Francophone Belgian Cinema Martin O’Shaughnessy Open Access Download PDF	31
Housing Precarity and Construction in Spanish Cinema From Francoism to Contemporary Documentary Manuel Garin Open Access Download PDF	49
Aspects of Poverty and Precarity Puzzle-Pictures from Portugal Nino Klingler Open Access Download PDF	65
From Poverty to Precarity Bridging the Gap Between Arthouse Films and Domestic Blockbusters in Contemporary Italian Cinema Elisa Cuter Open Access Download PDF	85
Varieties of the Precariat in Contemporary Greek Cinema Ursula-Helen Kassaveti Open Access Download PDF	105
Transformation of the Precariat in Istanbul Naivete, Idealism, and Corruption with and within the City Özgür Çiçek Open Access Download PDF	125
Film as Social Visibility Two Forms of Precarity in Romanian (and Bulgarian) Cinema Christian Ferencz-Flatz Open Access Download PDF	143
Precarity in Post-Yugoslav Cinema Everyday Life in Post-Socialist, Post-War, and Transition Societies Aleksandra Miljković Open Access Download PDF	161
Move on Down Precarity and Downward Mobility in Contemporary Hungarian Feature Films László Strausz Open Access Download PDF	179
Social Martyrs in Slovak Social Film Drama and Documentary Katarína Mišíková Open Access Download PDF	199
Pandemic (Dis)Proportions On the Depiction of Precarized Work and Living Conditions in Austrian Film Melanie Letschnig Open Access Download PDF	217
Precarity and Paradox in Swiss Cinema Marcy Goldberg Open Access Download PDF	233
Individualization as a Shared Experience? Precarious Conditions Negotiated in German Film: Individual Refusal and Collective Agency Hanna Prenzel Open Access Download PDF	251
Representation of Poverty and Precarity in Post-Communist Polish Cinema Ewa Mazierska Open Access Download PDF	271
Economic and Social Precarity in Baltic Cinema Eva Näripea, Renata Šukaitytė and Zane Balčus Open Access Download PDF	289
Screening Precarity Scenes Precariousness and the Welfare State in Scandinavian Film Anders Marklund Open Access Download PDF	303
Working-Class Precarity and the Social-Realist Tradition in British Cinema John Hill Open Access Download PDF	325
Relational Aesthetics of Precarity in Contemporary Dutch Documentary and Beyond Gert Jan Harkema Open Access Download PDF	347
Contributors Open Access Download PDF	365
Index Open Access Download PDF	369

(Deutsch)

Language: English
Publisher: De Gruyter
Audience: Scholars and students of cinema and media; sociologists and social theorists
Pages
- Front matter: 16
- Main content: 374
Illustrations
- Illustrations: 5
- Coloured Illustrations: 36
- Coloured Tables: 3
Keywords: Poverty; inequality; cinema; representation

eBook

Published: June 6, 2022
ISBN: 9783110707816

Hardcover

Published: June 6, 2022
ISBN: 9783110707724