Mapping precarity in contemporary cinema and television : chronotopes of anxiety, depression, expulsion/extinction /: chronotopes of anxiety, depression, expulsion/extinction. (2021)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Francesco Sticchi.
• Authors: Sticchi, Francesco
• Contents: Introduction.- A Film-Philosophy for the Age of Precarity.- The Economy of Precarity.- Anxious, Depressed, Disposable/Extinct Lives on Screen.- Is There Something Our Bodies Can Do?.- Chapter Outlines and Limitations.- Part 1: Anxiety.- 1.1 Visualising the (Embodied) Soul at Work.- 1.2 From Welfare to Workfare Through Cinema.- 1.3 Cinematic Performances of Femininity.- 1.4 I Can Be the Best of 'Me'.- 1.5 Becoming Algorithm.- Part 2: Depression.- 2.1 Film Chronotopes of the Precarious Northwest.- 2.2 Italian Peripheral Cinema.- 2.3 Gig Workers and Emotional Labour.- 2.4 Social Reproduction in Cinematic Care-Work.- 2.5 China is Purest Capitalism.- Part 3: Expulsion/Extinction.- 3.1 The Economy of Massacre at the Movies.- 3.2 Precarious Cinematic Citizenship.- 3.3 Differential Inclusion in TV series.- 3.4 Expulsed Childhoods.- 3.5 Visual Memories of a Dead World.- Conclusion: Cinematic Futures.
• Publisher Details: Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan
• Publication Date: 2021
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 791.401; Motion pictures -- Philosophy; Television programs -- Philosophy; Anxiety on television
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9783030632618
• Related ISBNs: 9783030632601
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