The Cinema of the Precariat is the first book to lay out the incredible range of the precariat (the social class suffering from precarity) as well as a detailed report on the cinematic record of their work and lives.It discusses a thorough and definitive selection of more than 250 films and related visual media that take the measure of the precariat worldwide. For example, thousands of Haitians, including children, harvest sugar cane in the Dominican Republic (The Price of Sugar), while illegal Afghan refugees work in Iran (Delbaran). More familiar are the millions of Latino immigrants, legal or not, of all ages, that work in the United States (Food Chains).
Each chapter focuses on a sub-class of the precariat or a contested zone of labor or the evolving political manifestation of the struggles of the unorganized and the dispossessed. Among the hundreds of bewildering film choices available nowadays this book offers the reader reliable guidance to the films bringing to life the economic, political, and social dilemmas faced by millions of the world's global workforce and their families.
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The Cinema of the Precariat
The Exploited, Underemployed, and Temp Workers of the World
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The Exploited, Underemployed, and Temp Workers of the World
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Table of contents
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Contents
- Figures
- Acknowledgments
- Preface
- Introduction
- Chapter 1: Harvest of Shame: The First Series of Films about the Precariat
- Chapter 2: Internal Migration in China
- Chapter 3: Daughters of a Lesser God: Women of the Precariat
- Chapter 4: Scavengers of the World, Unite!
- Chapter 5: Epidemic Cinema and Catastrophic Mise-en-Scène
- Chapter 6: Precious Cargo: The Creation of Wealth by the Global Precariat
- Chapter 7: The Cyberprecariat in the Alt-Future
- Chapter 8: Video Games as CinemaâAll Work, All Play
- Chapter 9: The 1 Percent: A Top-Down ConclusionâFifty Films about Capitalism in the Twenty-First Century
- Chapter 10: The 99 Percent: A Bottom-Up ConclusionâAlt-Labor and Organizing the Unorganized
- Bibliography
- Index
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