Film and the Anarchist Imagination: Expanded Second Edition (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780252085246)

Hailed since its initial release, Film and the Anarchist Imagination offers the authoritative account of films featuring anarchist characters and motifs. Richard Porton delves into the many ways filmmakers have portrayed anarchism's long traditions of labor agitation and revolutionary struggle. While acknowledging cinema's predilection for ludicrous anarchist stereotypes, he focuses on films that, wittingly or otherwise, reflect or even promote workplace resistance, anarchist pedagogy, self-emancipation, and anti-statist insurrection. Porton ranges from the silent era to the classics Z ro de Conduite and Love and Anarchy to contemporary films like The Nothing Factory while engaging the works of Jean Vigo, Jean-Luc Godard, Lina Wertm ller, Yvonne Rainer, Ken Loach, and others. For this updated second edition, Porton reflects on several new topics, including the negative portrayals of anarchism over the past twenty years and the contemporary embrace of post-anarchism.

Author: Richard Porton
ISBN-10: 0252085248
ISBN-13: 9780252085246
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Language: English
Published: 10/13/2020
Pages: 352
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.30lbs
Size: 9.10h x 6.10w x 1.00d