Work in Cinema

Alice Bardan, University of Southern California, USAIb Bondebjerg, University of Copenhagen, DenmarkWilliam Brown, Roehampton University, UKIan Fraser, Loughborough University, UK?aneta Jamrozik, Jagiellonian University, PolandLars Kristensen, University of Skövde, SwedenAlexandar Mihailovic, Hofstra University, USAEva Näripea, Estonian Academy of Arts, EstoniaJonathan L. Owen, Exeter University, UKDavid Sorfa, Liverpool John Moores University, UKChristina Stojanova, University of Regina, CanadaAlfredo Suppia, Federal University of Juiz de Fora, BrazilGlyn White, University of Salford, UK

• Introduction: Work, Struggle and Cinema; Ewa Mazierska PART I: NEO-LIBERAL WORK 1. Affective Labor and Alienation in Up in the Air; Ian Fraser 2. Becoming Cinema: The Social Network, Exploitation in the Digital Age, and the Film Industry; William Brown 3. The New European Cinema of Precarity: A Transnational Perspective; Alice Bardan 4. Acting as Value in the Age of Neoliberalism: Juliette Binoche in Michael Haneke's Code Unknown; ?aneta Jamrozik PART II: NATIONAL AND TRANSNATIONAL CINEMAS 5. The Trauma of Daedalus: The Labyrinth of Labour in Brazilian Cinema; Alfredo Suppia 6. Beyond Work and Sex in Czech Cinema; David Sorfa 7. Desensitised Migrants: Organised Crime Workers in David Cronenberg's Eastern Promises and Aleksei Balabanov's Stoker; Alexandar Mihailovic 8. The Damnation of Labour in the Films of Bela Tarr; Christina Stojanova PART III: GENRE 9. You Don't Have to be Crazy to Work, But it Helps: Work in Comedies of the 1930s; Glyn White 10. The Migrations of Factory Style: Work, Play and Work-as-Play in Andy Warhol, Chantal Akerman and Apichatpong Weerasethakul; Jonathan L. Owen 11. Work in Outer Space: Notes on Eastern European Science Fiction Cinema; Eva Näripea 12. Work in Bicycle Cinema: From Race Rider to City Courier; Lars Kristensen 13. Documentaries, Work and Global Challenges; Ib Bondebjerg

"This is a timely and stimulating book. It shows, convincingly and compellingly, that far from simply ignoring work, cinema has probed and investigated it in original and important ways. The book explores cinematic history but is, above all, of the current moment. At its most productive when it brings together contemporary theories of work with careful close analysis of films, it is required reading for anyone interested in the representation of work and associated subjectivities." - Martin O'Shaughnessy, Professor of Film Studies, Nottingham Trent University, UK