Making worlds - affect and collectivity in contemporary European cinema
Inbunden bok. 2020. 336 sidor.
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Förlagsfakta
- ISBN
- 9780231194181
- Titel
- Making worlds - affect and collectivity in contemporary European cinema
- Författare
- Breger, Claudia
- Utgivningsår
- 2020
- Omfång
- 336 sidor
- Bandtyp
- Hardcover
- Språk
- English
- Baksidestext
- "The twenty-first century has seen an intensification of racial violence, religious chauvinism, class division, and the politics of hatred in the West. In Making Worlds, Claudia Breger argues that contemporary European arthouse cinema provides ways of thinking about and producing new types of collectivities in response to these political trends. In readings of key contemporary European films such as Michael Haneke's The White Ribbon, Aki Kaurismaki's Le Havre, and Inarritu's Biutiful, Breger examines the ways in which these films produce unexpected and frequently destabilizing affects that invite viewers to imagine new connections among individuals. These films and their depictions of refugees, immigrants, and communities do not simply counter dominant political imaginaries of hate and fear with positive alternatives. Instead, they produce new sensibilities, responses, and affects among viewers that allow them to see the world in new ways"--
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