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.
Acknowledgements List of Illustrations Preface Introduction Chapter 1: Harvest of Shame: The First Series of Films about the Precariat Chapter 2: Internal Migration in China Chapter 3: Scavengers of the World, Unite! Chapter 4: Epidemic Cinema and Catastrophic Mise en Scene Chapter 5: Precious Cargo: Exploiting Minerals, Fossil Fuels, and Foodstuffs Chapter 6: The Cyberprecariat in the Shadows of Utopia Chapter 7: Out of the Gallery and Into the Street Chapter 8: Video Games as Cinema: All Work, All Play Chapter 9: Top Down--Business as Usual: Fifty Films about Capitalism in the 21st Century Chapter 10: Bottom Up--A Conclusion: Alt-Labor and Organizing the Unorganized Sources Index
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