Looking Beyond Neoliberalism: French and Francophone Belgian Cinema and the Crisis
Looking Beyond Neoliberalism explores how cinema is responding to the economic crisis that sprang to public attention in 2008 and continues to shape our politics and societies. Bringing French and francophone Belgian films into dialogue with carefully selected theories, O’Shaughnessy develops insights and an analytical framework that will become important resources for other scholars of contemporary cinema.
This book explores cinema's capacity to register mutations in subjectivity, the material grounds for identity construction and the machinic dimension of neoliberal subjection. It also probes its capacity to imagine alternative economies and identities and an exit from neoliberal labour. By developing fresh insights into political cinema, this book provides engages with cinema’s response to neoliberalism in crisis.

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Looking Beyond Neoliberalism: French and Francophone Belgian Cinema and the Crisis
Looking Beyond Neoliberalism explores how cinema is responding to the economic crisis that sprang to public attention in 2008 and continues to shape our politics and societies. Bringing French and francophone Belgian films into dialogue with carefully selected theories, O’Shaughnessy develops insights and an analytical framework that will become important resources for other scholars of contemporary cinema.
This book explores cinema's capacity to register mutations in subjectivity, the material grounds for identity construction and the machinic dimension of neoliberal subjection. It also probes its capacity to imagine alternative economies and identities and an exit from neoliberal labour. By developing fresh insights into political cinema, this book provides engages with cinema’s response to neoliberalism in crisis.

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Looking Beyond Neoliberalism: French and Francophone Belgian Cinema and the Crisis

Looking Beyond Neoliberalism: French and Francophone Belgian Cinema and the Crisis

by Martin O'Shaughnessy
Looking Beyond Neoliberalism: French and Francophone Belgian Cinema and the Crisis

Looking Beyond Neoliberalism: French and Francophone Belgian Cinema and the Crisis

by Martin O'Shaughnessy

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Looking Beyond Neoliberalism explores how cinema is responding to the economic crisis that sprang to public attention in 2008 and continues to shape our politics and societies. Bringing French and francophone Belgian films into dialogue with carefully selected theories, O’Shaughnessy develops insights and an analytical framework that will become important resources for other scholars of contemporary cinema.
This book explores cinema's capacity to register mutations in subjectivity, the material grounds for identity construction and the machinic dimension of neoliberal subjection. It also probes its capacity to imagine alternative economies and identities and an exit from neoliberal labour. By developing fresh insights into political cinema, this book provides engages with cinema’s response to neoliberalism in crisis.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781474448635
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Publication date: 05/31/2024
Series: Political Cinemas
Pages: 208
Product dimensions: 6.14(w) x 9.21(h) x 0.00(d)

About the Author

Professor Martin O'Shaughnessy is the Subject Leader of Film and Television Studies at Nottingham Trent University

Table of Contents

List of figuresAcknowledgements

Introduction - Looking sideways at the Crisis

Chapter 1. Audiard’s triumphant neoliberal subjects

Chapter 2. Subjects in the chains of debt

Chapter 3. The desperate search for the exit

Chapter 4. The deconstructive materialism of Sciamma and Kechiche

Chapter 5. The Dardennes’ unwitting gifts

Chapter 6. Machinic enslavement and cinema’s machinic powers

Conclusion

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