Screening Solidarity

Helga Druxes is Paul H. Hunn '55 Professor in Social Studies, emerita, in the Department of German and Russian at Williams College, USA. With Patricia A. Simpson, she published an edited volume Digital Media Strategies of the Far Right Across Europe and the United States (2015), an edited volume on Navid Kermani (2016), and articles on migration film, and recent German fiction about exile and memory. Alexandar Mihailovic is Visiting Professor of Literature at Bennington College and Professor emeritus of Russian and Comparative Literature at Hofstra University, USA. His books include: Corporeal Words: Mikhail Bakhtin's Theology of Discourse (1997), The Mitki and the Art of Postmodern Protest in Russia (2018; updated Russian translation, 2021), and the forthcoming Illiberal Vanguard: Populist Elitism in the United States and Russia (2023).

"Through a focus on recent film, this study examines the representation of neoliberal subjects from contemporary European, Russian and American cinema"--

AcknowledgementsIntroduction: A Cinema Against Precarity and Predatory Neoliberalism1. Working-Class Solidarity as Project in Contemporary Franco-Belgian Factory FilmsHelga Druxes (Williams College, USA)2. Arts of Resistance in the Post-Socialist WorkplacePatricia Anne Simpson (University of Nebraska-Lincoln, USA)3. Fevered Dreams of Neoliberalism in Films Made for the Russian MarketAlexandar Mihailovic (Bennington College, USA)4. The Neoliberalization of Russia in the Films of Andrei ZvyagintsevAlexandar Mihailovic (Bennington College, USA)5. Becoming Other: Neoliberalism and "Suboptimal" Bodies Patricia Anne Simpson (University of Nebraska-Lincoln, USA)6. Debased Black Masculinity as an Engine for Neoliberal Economies in African American CinemaHelga Druxes (Williams College, USA)7. Aging Out of the American Workplace: Intentional Communities and the Lure of the Open RoadHelga Druxes (Williams College, USA)EpilogueHelga Druxes (Williams College, USA), Patricia Anne Simpson (University of Nebraska-Lincoln, USA), Alexandar Mihailovic (Bennington College, USA)BIbliographyIndex