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03048aam a2200349 i 4500 001 DD70A514EE0211ECABFB385646ECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20220617010046 008 210824s2022 wlka bq 001 0 eng d 020 $a 9781786838421 020 $a 1786838427 035 $a (OCoLC)1264719800 040 $a YDX $b eng $e rda $c YDX $d BDX $d NUI $d SILO 043 $a e-fr--- 050 4 $a PN1993.5.F7 $b E97 2022 100 1 $a Evrard, Audrey, $e author. 245 10 $a Precarious sociality, ethics and politics : $b french documentary cinema in the early twenty-first century / $c Audrey Evrard. 264 1 $a Cardiff : $b University of Wales Press, $c 2022. 300 $a 298 pages ; $b black and white illustrations ; $c 23 cm 490 1 $a French and Francophone Studies 520 $a "Precarious Sociality, Ethics and Politics: French Documentary Cinema in the Early Twenty-First Century brings an original perspective on French cinema's 'return to work' in the early twenty-first century, focusing on the transformation of cinematic activism in view of the rapid dissolution of class narratives and solidarities. It is argued that, reckoning with widespread anxieties about job insecurity, social uncertainty, loss and invisibility in French society, filmmakers catalysed new modes of intervention, best described as embodied praxes of sociality. Combining rigorous film analyses with concepts borrowed from philosophy, sociology, geography and political theory, this study positions documentary as a privileged point of articulation between aesthetics, politics and ethics. The wide-ranging film corpus features well-established auteurs (Agnès Varda, Raymond Depardon, Denis Gheerbrant) and less canonical filmmakers to celebrate the vitality of contemporary French documentary cinema and its creative contributions to international discussions about work, precarity and social resilience." --cover page [4]. 504 $a Includes bibliographical references (265-285), filmography (pages 25-263), and index. 505 0 $a Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Series Editors' Preface -- Acknowledgements -- List of illustrations -- Notes to readers -- Introduction -- Chapter 1: The vanishing factory -- Chapter 2: Global precarity, local struggles -- Chapter 3: Precarious filiations -- Chapter 4: No pain, no gain: the ordinary brutality of (the) work(place) -- Chapter 5: Portraits of life in France's folds -- Concluding remarks -- Endnotes -- Films cited -- Bibliography 650 0 $a Documentary films $z France $y 21st century $x Criticism and interpretation. 650 0 $a Politics in motion pictures $y 21st century. 650 0 $a Documentary films $z France $x Criticism and interpretation. $y 21st century $x Criticism and interpretation. 650 0 $a Motion pictures, French $y 21st century. 650 0 $a Neoliberalism in motion pictures $y 21st century. 830 0 $a French and francophone studies. 941 $a 1 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20231117013831.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=DD70A514EE0211ECABFB385646ECA4DBInitiate Another SILO Locator Search