Mapping Precarity in Contemporary Cinema and Television

Francesco Sticchi works as Lecturer at Oxford Brookes University, UK, and at the SAE Institute. He is the author of Melancholy Emotion in Contemporary Cinema: A Spinozian Analysis of Film Experience (2019).

• 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.