Women at Work in Twenty-First-Century European Cinema Paperback / softback
by Barbara Mennel
Paperback / softback
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From hairdressers and caregivers to reproductive workers and power-suited executives, images of women's labor have powered a fascinating new movement within twenty-first-century European cinema.
Social realist dramas capture precarious working conditions.
Comedies exaggerate the habits of the global managerial class.
Stories from countries battered by the global financial crisis emphasize the patriarchal family, debt, and unemployment.
Barbara Mennel delves into the ways these films about female labor capture the tension between feminist advances and their appropriation by capitalism in a time of ongoing transformation.
Looking at independent and genre films from a cross-section of European nations, Mennel sees a focus on economics and work adapted to the continent's varied kinds of capitalism and influenced by concepts in second-wave feminism.
More than ever, narratives of work put female characters front and center--and female directors behind the camera.
Yet her analysis shows that each film remains a complex mix of progressive and retrogressive dynamics as it addresses the changing nature of work in Europe.
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- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:258 pages, 27 black & white photographs
- Publisher:University of Illinois Press
- Publication Date:30/01/2019
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- ISBN:9780252083952
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Available to Order - This title is available to order, with delivery expected within 2 weeks
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:258 pages, 27 black & white photographs
- Publisher:University of Illinois Press
- Publication Date:30/01/2019
- Category:
- ISBN:9780252083952
