Film and the Anarchist Imagination (2nd Edition)

Film and the Anarchist Imagination (2nd Edition)
Richard Porton
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15 Sep 2020 US
9780252085246
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Hailed since its initial release, Film and the Anarchist Imagination offers the authoritative account of films featuring anarchist characters and motifs. Richard Porton delves into the many ways filmmakers have portrayed anarchism' s long traditions of labor agitation and revolutionary struggle. While acknowledging cinema' s predilection for ludicrous anarchist stereotypes, he focuses on films that, wittingly or otherwise, reflect or even promote workplace resistance, anarchist pedagogy, self-emancipation, and anti-statist insurrection. Porton ranges from the silent era to the classics Zero de Conduite and Love and Anarchy to contemporary films like The Nothing Factory while engaging the works of Jean Vigo, Jean-Luc Godard, Lina Wertmuller, Yvonne Rainer, Ken Loach, and others. For this updated second edition, Porton reflects on several new topics, including the negative portrayals of anarchism over the past twenty years and the contemporary embrace of post-anarchism.
"So many mainstream movies are ultimately propaganda: propaganda for consumerism, violence, outdated gender relations, and the capitalist system. This book reminds us that films can also be rebellious, aiming not to reinforce but undermine the status quo. In this updated version of his original classic, Richard Porton traces the evolution of anarchist ideas and their influence on cinematic form and content, exploring a wide range of expressive work designed to provoke, inspire, and confound. A welcome and compelling celebration of a subversive and still-evolving genre. "--Astra Taylor, author of The People' s Platform: Taking Back Power and Culture in the Digital Age "Although I' m a feminist, but not a self-identified anarchist-feminist, Richard Porton' s Film And The Anarchist Imagination has inspired me to study the texts and films he brilliantly analyzes, even revisit my own from his unique perspective. "--Lizzie Borden Praise for the previous edition:< /br> "Porton' s astute and engaging study provides a needed corrective to the ' laughably unsubtle' movies that recycle stereotypes and half-truths. "--Catherine Saint Louis, New York Times Book Review
Richard Porton is an editor at Cineaste and has taught film studies at the College of Staten Island, Hunter College, Rutgers University, and New York University.
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ISBN-13: 9780252085246
Published: 15 Sep 2020
Published In: United States
Imprint: University of Illinois Press
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Format: Paperback
Height: 235mm
Width: 156mm
Pages: 352

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