1. Aesthetics of Crisis: Art Cinema and Neoliberalism

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS v
3. List of Figures vii
4. List of Contributors viii
5. Acknowledgements xi
6. Introduction 1
7. 1. Aesthetics of Crisis: Art Cinema and Neoliberalism 25
8. 2. Beyond Neoliberalism? Gift Economies in the Films of the Dardenne Brothers 43
9. 3. The Resurgence of Modernism and its Critique of Liberalism in the Cinema of Crisis 60
10. 4. Post-Fordism in Active Life, Industrial Revolution and The Nothing Factory 76
11. 5. Re-evaluating Crisis Politics in the Work of Aku Louhimies 93
12. 6. Crisis of Cinema/Cinema of Crisis: The Car Crash and the Berlin School 105
13. 7. Representing and Escaping the Crises of Neoliberalism: Veiko Õunpuu’s Films and Methods 119
14. 8. The Future is Past, the Present Cannot be Fixed: Ken Loach and the Crisis 136
15. 9. It Could Happen to You: Empathy and Empowerment in Iberian Austerity Cinema 150
16. 10. The Double Form of Neoliberal Subjugation: Crisis on the Eastern European Screen 164
17. 11. Housing Problems: Britain’s Housing Crisis and Documentary 180
18. 12. Miserable Journeys, Symbolic Rescues: Refugees and Migrants in the Cinema of Fortress Europe 198
19. 13. Frontlines: Migrants in Hungarian Documentaries in the 2010s 215
20. 14. Mongrel Attunement in White God 231
21. 15. Labour and Exploitation by Displacement in Recent European Film 244
22. 16. A Hushed Crisis: The Visual Narratives of (Eastern) Europe’s Antiziganism 260
23. Bibliography 277
24. Index 304