{"product_id":"neoliberalism-and-global-cinema-9780415854146","title":"Neoliberalism and Global Cinema","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn cinema studies today, rarely do we find a direct investigation into the culture of capitalism and how it has been refracted and fabricated in global cinema production under neoliberalism. However, the current economic crisis and the subsequent Wall Street bailout in 2008 have brought about a worldwide skepticism regarding the last four decades of economic restructuring and the culture that has accompanied it. In this edited volume, an international ensemble of scholars looks at neoliberalism, both as culture and political economy, in the various cinemas of the world. In essays encompassing the cinemas of Asia, Africa, Latin America, Europe, and the United States the authors outline how the culture and subjectivities engendered by neoliberalism have been variously performed, contested, and reinforced in these cinemas. The premise of this book is that the cultural and economic logic of neoliberalism, i.e., the radical financialization and market-driven calculations, of all facets of s\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSection 1: Hollywood and Global Dominance\u003c\/strong\u003e 1. ‘For a better deal, Harass Your Governor!’: Neoliberalism and Hollywood, \u003cem\u003eToby Miller and Richard Maxwell\u003c\/em\u003e 2. A Legacy of Neoliberalism: Patterns in Media Conglomeration, \u003cem\u003eEileen R. Meehan\u003c\/em\u003e 3. 21st Century Neoliberal Man, \u003cem\u003eDeborah Tudor\u003c\/em\u003e \u003cstrong\u003eSection 2: Latin America \u003c\/strong\u003e4. Cuban Cinema: A Case of Accelerated Underdevelopment, \u003cem\u003eMichael Chanan\u003c\/em\u003e 5. Politics and Privatization in Peruvian Cinema: Grupo Chaski's Aesthetics of Survival, \u003cem\u003eSophia A. McClennen\u003c\/em\u003e 6. Form, Politics and Culture: a case study of The Take, The Revolution Will Not Be Televised and Listen To Venezuela, \u003cem\u003eMike Wayne and Deirdre O’Neill\u003c\/em\u003e \u003cstrong\u003eSection 3: Asia \u003c\/strong\u003e7. Market Socialism and Its Discontent: Jia Zhangke's Cinematic Narrative of China's Transition in the Age of Global Capital, \u003cem\u003eXudong Zhang\u003c\/em\u003e 8. \"Leitmotif\": State, Market, and Postsocialist Film Industry Under Neoliberal Globalization, \u003cem\u003eYing Xiao\u003c\/em\u003e 9. From Exploitation to Playful Exploits: The Rise of Collectives and the Redefinition of Labor, Life, and Representation in Neoliberal Japan, \u003cem\u003eSharon Hayashi\u003c\/em\u003e 10. The Underdevelopment of Development: Neoliberalism and the Crisis of Bourgeois Individualism, \u003cem\u003eJyotsna Kapur\u003c\/em\u003e 11. Fragments of Labor: Neoliberal Attitudes and Architectures in Contemporary South Korean Cinema, Keith \u003cem\u003eB. Wagner\u003c\/em\u003e 12. Mainlandization and Neoliberalism with Post-colonial and Chinese Characteristics: Challenges for the Hong Kong Film Industry, \u003cem\u003eMirana M. Szeto and Yun-chung Chen\u003c\/em\u003e 13. Neoliberalism and Authoritarianism in Singaporean Cinema: A Case Study of Perth, \u003cem\u003eJenna Ng\u003c\/em\u003e 14. Gambling on Life and Death: Neoliberal Rationality and the Films of Jeffrey Jeturian, \u003cem\u003eBliss Cua Lim\u003c\/em\u003e \u003cstrong\u003eSection 4: Africa and Europe \u003c\/strong\u003e15. Nollywood in Lagos, Lagos in Nollywood Films, \u003cem\u003eJonathan Haynes\u003c\/em\u003e 16. French Cinema: Counter-model, Cultural exception, Resistances, \u003cem\u003eMartin O’Shaughnessy \u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Taylor \u0026 Francis Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51018206150999,"sku":"9780415854146","price":44.64,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780415854146.jpg?v=1750776013","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/neoliberalism-and-global-cinema-9780415854146","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}