Work in Cinema

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