Salome Aguilera Skvirsky

The Process Genre

Cinema and the Aesthetic of Labor

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Produktbeschreibung

Salomà Aguilera Skvirsky theorizes the process genreâ filmic genre characterized by its representation of chronologically ordered steps in which some form of labor results in a finished product.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 336
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. März 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 158mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 584g
• ISBN-13: 9781478006442
• ISBN-10: 1478006447
• Artikelnr.: 56787481

Autorenporträt

Salomé Aguilera Skvirsky is Assistant Professor of Cinema and Media Studies at the University of Chicago.

Inhaltsangabe

A Note on the Art  ix
Acknowledgments  xi
Introduction: The Process Genre  1
1. The Process Film in Context  51
2. On Being Absorbed in Work  77
3. Aestheticizing Labor  116
4. Nation Building  146
5. The Limits of the Genre  193
Epilogue: The Spoof That Proves the Rule  219
Notes  239
Bibliography  287
Index 305