"Precarity In Western European Cinema

This book explores the new European cinema of precarity with a particular focus on Western European films by revisiting some of its most important precursors including 1930s Popular Front films and 1990s French New Realism Italian neorealism and the British New Wave. It identifies dominant themes and motifs in contemporary films and their precursors as well as important continuities and discontinuities between earlier and later representations of work class class struggle solidarity precarity the moral economy of capitalism and neoliberalism and their affective pathologies. Trifonova examines the ways in which the cinema of precarity mediates economic and social capital in the age of neoliberalism and considers whether these films lend validity to Guy Standing’s idea of the precariat as “the new dangerous class.” |Precarity in Western European Cinema