Film and the Anarchist Imagination: Expanded Second Edition
Richard Porton
Abstract
Hailed since its initial release, this book offers the authoritative account of films featuring anarchist characters and motifs. The book 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, the book focuses on films that, wittingly or otherwise, reflect or even promote workplace resistance, anarchist pedagogy, self-emancipation, and anti-statist insurrection. The book ranges from the silent era to the classics Zero de Conduite and Love and An ... More
Hailed since its initial release, this book offers the authoritative account of films featuring anarchist characters and motifs. The book 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, the book focuses on films that, wittingly or otherwise, reflect or even promote workplace resistance, anarchist pedagogy, self-emancipation, and anti-statist insurrection. The book 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. This updated second edition reflects on several new topics, including the negative portrayals of anarchism over the past twenty years and the contemporary embrace of post-anarchism.
Keywords:
films,
anarchism,
anarchists,
anarchist stereotypes,
workplace resistance,
anarchist pedagogy,
self-emancipation,
anti-statist insurrection,
post-anarchism
Bibliographic Information
Print publication date: 2020 |
Print ISBN-13: 9780252043338 |
Published to Illinois Scholarship Online: September 2021 |
DOI:10.5622/illinois/9780252043338.001.0001 |