Ewa Mazierska - Contemporary Cinema and Neoliberal Ideology

Contemporary Cinema and Neoliberal Ideology

In this edited collection, an international ensemble of scholars examine what contemporary cinema tells us about neoliberal capitalism and cinema, exploring whether filmmakers are able to imagine progressive alternatives under capitalist conditions. Individual contributions discuss filmmaking practices, film distribution, textual characteristics and the reception of films made in different parts of the world. They engage with topics such as class struggle, debt, multiculturalism and the effect of neoliberalism on love and sexual behaviour. Written in accessible, jargon-free language, Contemporary Cinema and Neoliberal Ideology is an essential text for those interested in political filmmaking and the political meanings of films.

Ewa Mazierska is Professor of Film Studies at the School of Humanities and Social Sciences at the University of Central Lancashire. She has published over twenty monographs and edited collections on film and popular music. Mazierska (with Kristensen) has also organised two conferences entitled Marx at the Movies, one in 2012 and again in 2015, which were devoted to the interface between the moving image and Marxism.

Lars Kristensen is Senior Lecturer in Media Arts, Aesthetics and Narration at the University of Skvde, Sweden, where he teaches moving image theory to game developers. His research focuses on Russian and Eastern European filmmaking as well as bicycle cinema, post-critique and theories of game and play. His publications have appeared in Studies in Eastern European Cinema, Games and Culture, Journal of Gaming and Virtual Worlds and Thesis Eleven.

Contemporary Cinema and Neoliberal Ideology

Edited by Ewa Mazierska and Lars Kristensen

Contents

Ewa Mazierska

David Archibald

Kevan Feshami

William Brown

Lars Kristensen

Corey Kai Nelson Schultz

Ewa Mazierska

Paul Dave

Rosa Barotsi

Doru Pop

Constantin Parvulescu

Elbieta Ostrowska

Kamila Rymajdo

Martin OShaughnessy

Bruce Williams

David Archibald is Senior Lecturer in Film and Television Studies at the University of Glasgow. His publications include the monograph The War That Wont Die: The Spanish Civil War in Cinema (2012), and numerous essays on radical film, contested media events and various aspects of Scotlands cultural and political landscape. An active participant in film culture, he is Chair of the Board of Document Film Festival and a Trustee of Glasgow Film Theatre, and was Coordinator of the 2016 Radical Film Network Festival and Unconference. David has worked on six short films, most recently Govan Young, a documentary about medieval Glasgow, and he also appears irregularly in the Glasgow Glam Rock Dialogues, which he founded with Carl Lavery in 2016.

Rosa Barotsi is a postdoctoral researcher affiliated with the ICI Berlin. She holds a PhD in European Cinema from the University of Cambridge, UK. Her research explores how political meanings are created and reshaped in contemporary cinema. She has published on slow cinema; Greek cinema and the crisis; Italian cinema and impegno; and the politics of documentary filmmaking.

William Brown is a Senior Lecturer in Film at the University of Roehampton, London. He is the author of Non-Cinema: Global Digital Filmmaking and the Multitude (2018), Supercinema: Film-Philosophy for the Digital Age (2013) and Moving People, Moving Images: Cinema and Trafficking in the New Europe (with Dina Iordanova and Leshu Torchin, 2010). He is also the co-editor of Deleuze and Film (with David Martin-Jones, 2012). He has published numerous essays in journals and edited collections, and has directed various films, including En attendant Godard (2009), Circle/Line (2016), Letters to Ariadne (2016) and The Benefit of Doubt (2017).

Paul Dave is Reader in Film and Cultural Theory at the University of Teesside in the School of Arts and Media. His research generally focuses on historical materialist approaches to culture. He is author of Visions of England: Class and Culture in Contemporary Cinema (2006) and has published work in a range of journals including New Left Review, Radical Philosophy, Film International, The Journal of British Cinema and Television and Soundings. He is currently writing a monograph for Pluto Press in the Marxism and Culture series, entitled British Cinema: Romanticism and Historical Materialism. He is a founding member of the Social Realism Seminar based in the School of Arts and Media at the University of Teesside.

Kevan Feshami is a PhD Candidate in the Media Studies department at the University of Colorado, Boulder. His dissertation examines the historical development and contemporary circulation of the white genocide conspiracy theory within the digital networks of white nationalist movements. He is also very interested in historical materialist and dialectical philosophy and methodology, especially as a revolutionary analysis of capitalist life.

Lars Kristensen is Senior Lecturer in Media Arts, Aesthetics and Narration at the University of Skvde, Sweden. His research focuses on Eastern European filmmaking, bicycle cinema and Marxist approaches to moving images. Current research topics include modern propaganda, Roger Caillois and theories of game and play. He is the editor of Art and Game Obstruction (2016) and Postcommunist Film Russia, Eastern Europe and World Culture (2012), as well as two collections co-edited with Ewa Mazierska, Marx at the Movies (2014) and Marxism and Film Activism (2015).

Ewa Mazierska is Professor of Film Studies at the University of Central Lancashire. She has published over twenty monographs and edited collections on film and popular music. They include