Screening Solidarity

Helga Druxes is Paul H. Hunn ’55 Professor in Social Studies, emerita, in the Department of German and Russian at Williams College, USA. With Patricia A. Simpson, she published an edited volume Digital Media Strategies of the Far Right Across Europe and the United States (2015), an edited volume on Navid Kermani (2016), and articles on migration film, and recent German fiction about exile and memory.Alexandar Mihailovic is Professor Emeritus of Comparative Literature and Russian at Hofstra University, USA and has taught at Williams and Bennington Colleges and in the Slavic Studies department at Brown University. His books include The Mitki and the Art of Postmodern Protest in Russia (2018), Corporeal Words: Mikhail Bakhtin’s Theology of Discourse (1997), and the edited volume Tchaikovsky and His Contemporaries (Praeger, 1999). Patricia Anne Simpson is Professor of German at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, USA. She publishes widely on German cultural studies from the early modern era to the present. She is currently completing a book-length study of coloniality and decolonial discourses and practices in German-speaking Europe.

• Acknowledgements Introduction: A Cinema Against Precarity and Predatory Neoliberalism1. Working-Class Solidarity as Project in Contemporary Franco-Belgian Factory Films Helga Druxes (Williams College, USA)2. Arts of Resistance in the Post-Socialist WorkplacePatricia Anne Simpson (University of Nebraska-Lincoln, USA)3. Fevered Dreams of Neoliberalism in Films Made for the Russian MarketAlexandar Mihailovic (Bennington College, USA)4. The Neoliberalization of Russia in the Films of Andrei ZvyagintsevAlexandar Mihailovic (Bennington College, USA)5. Becoming Other: Neoliberalism and “Suboptimal” Bodies Patricia Anne Simpson (University of Nebraska-Lincoln, USA)6. Debased Black Masculinity as an Engine for Neoliberal Economies in African American CinemaHelga Druxes (Williams College, USA)7. Aging Out of the American Workplace: Intentional Communities and the Lure of the Open RoadHelga Druxes (Williams College, USA)EpilogueHelga Druxes (Williams College, USA), Patricia Anne Simpson (University of Nebraska-Lincoln, USA), Alexandar Mihailovic (Bennington College, USA)BIbliography Index

Refreshingly utopian in its aims but never naive, Screening Solidarity travels the globe to show that the liberatory possibilities promised by early cinema were never entirely abandoned; in their critique of hegemonic neoliberalism, the films discussed in this book remind us always to look for an alternative.