The Cinema of the Precariat: The Exploited, Underemployed, and Temp Workers of the World by Zaniello, Thomas

The Cinema of the Precariat: The Exploited, Underemployed, and Temp Workers of the World (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781501385841)

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The Cinema of the Precariat: The Exploited, Underemployed, and Temp Workers of the World by Zaniello, Thomas

The Cinema of the Precariat: The Exploited, Underemployed, and Temp Workers of the World

$42.95
The Cinema of the Precariat: The Exploited, Underemployed, and Temp Workers of the World by Zaniello, Thomas

The Cinema of the Precariat: The Exploited, Underemployed, and Temp Workers of the World

$42.95
Format: Paperback
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The Cinema of the Precariatis the first book to lay out the incredible range of the precariat (the social class suffering from precarity) as well as a detailed report on the cinematic record of their work and lives.It discusses a thorough and definitive selection of more than 250 films and related visual media that take the measure of the precariat worldwide. For example, thousands of Haitians, including children, harvest sugar cane in the Dominican Republic (The Price of Sugar), while illegal Afghan refugees work in Iran (Delbaran). More familiar are the millions of Latino immigrants, legal or not, of all ages, that work in the United States (Food Chains).

Each chapter focuses on a sub-class of the precariat or a contested zone of labor or the evolving political manifestation of the struggles of the unorganized and the dispossessed. Among the hundreds of bewildering film choices available nowadays this book offers the reader reliable guidance to the films bringing to life the economic, political, and social dilemmas faced by millions of the world's global workforce and their families.

Author: Thomas Zaniello
ISBN-10: 1501385844
ISBN-13: 9781501385841
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Language: English
Published: 08/26/2021
Pages: 204
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.62lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.44d
By Thomas Zaniello
By Thomas Zaniello
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Tom Zaniello is Professor Emeritus, having taught film and cultural studies, and directed the Honors Program at Northern Kentucky University, USA. He has been active as a film programmer for the Hill Center in Washington DC and for the London and North West (Liverpool) Labour Film Festivals. He recently published California's Lamson Murder Mystery (2016), the story of the wrongful conviction of a Hollywood screenwriter for murder, along with Working Stiffs, Union Maids, Reds, and Riffraff: An Expanded Guide to Films about Labor, 2nd ed. (2003) and The Cinema of Globalization (2007)

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