Precarity in European Film: Depictions and Discourses

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 Frontmatter -- Contents -- Drawing A Map Of Precarity In European Film: Preface And Overview -- Studying The Cinema Of Precarity -- Precarious Narratives In French And Francophone Belgian Cinema -- Housing Precarity And Construction In Spanish Cinema -- Aspects Of Poverty And Precarity -- From Poverty To Precarity -- Varieties Of The Precariat In Contemporary Greek Cinema -- Transformation Of The Precariat In Istanbul -- Film As Social Visibility -- Precarity In Post-yugoslav Cinema -- Move On Down -- Social Martyrs In Slovak Social Film Drama And Documentary -- Pandemic (dis)proportions -- Precarity And Paradox In Swiss Cinema -- Individualization As A Shared Experience? -- Representation Of Poverty And Precarity In Post-communist Polish Cinema -- Economic And Social Precarity In Baltic Cinema -- Screening Precarity Scenes -- Working-class Precarity And The Social-realist Tradition In British Cinema -- Relational Aesthetics Of Precarity In Contemporary Dutch Documentary And Beyond -- Contributors -- Index Ed. By Elisa Cuter, Guido Kirsten, Hanna Prenzel. Issued Also In Print. Mode Of Access: Internet Via World Wide Web. In English.