Limit search to available items
Book Cover
E-book
Author Evrard, Audrey

Title Precarious Sociality, Ethics and Politics French Documentary Cinema in the Early Twenty-First Century
Published Cardiff : University of Wales Press, 2022

Copies

Description 1 online resource (210 p.)
Series French and Francophone Studies
French and francophone studies.
Contents Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Series Editors' Preface -- Acknowledgements -- List of illustrations -- Notes to readers -- Introduction -- Chapter 1: The vanishing factory -- Chapter 2: Global precarity, local struggles -- Chapter 3: Precarious filiations -- Chapter 4: No pain, no gain: the ordinary brutality of (the) work(place) -- Chapter 5: Portraits of life in France's folds -- Concluding remarks -- Endnotes -- Films cited -- Bibliography
Summary Precarious Sociality, Ethics and Politics examines filmmakers' 'return to work' by the late 1990s, focusing on how they positioned the practice as a privileged point of articulation between aesthetics, politics and ethics, where work, precarity and activism could be addressed anew
Notes Description based upon print version of record
Subject Politics in motion pictures -- 21st century
Documentary films -- France -- Themes, motives -- 21st century -- Criticism and interpretation
Motion pictures, French -- 21st century
Neoliberalism in motion pictures -- 21st century
Motion pictures, French
Neoliberalism in motion pictures
Politics in motion pictures
France
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 1786838443
9781786838445