The Process Genre
Cinema and the Aesthetic of Labor
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2020
Duke University Press (Verlag)
978-1-4780-0644-2 (ISBN)
Duke University Press (Verlag)
978-1-4780-0644-2 (ISBN)
Salomé Aguilera Skvirsky theorizes the process genre—filmic genre characterized by its representation of chronologically ordered steps in which some form of labor results in a finished product.
From IKEA assembly guides and “hands and pans” cooking videos on social media to Mister Rogers's classic factory tours, representations of the step-by-step fabrication of objects and food are ubiquitous in popular media. In The Process Genre Salomé Aguilera Skvirsky introduces and theorizes the process genre—a heretofore unacknowledged and untheorized transmedial genre characterized by its representation of chronologically ordered steps in which some form of labor results in a finished product. Originating in the fifteenth century with machine drawings, and now including everything from cookbooks to instructional videos and art cinema, the process genre achieves its most powerful affective and ideological results in film. By visualizing technique and absorbing viewers into the actions of social actors and machines, industrial, educational, ethnographic, and other process films stake out diverse ideological positions on the meaning of labor and on a society's level of technological development. In systematically theorizing a genre familiar to anyone with access to a screen, Skvirsky opens up new possibilities for film theory.
From IKEA assembly guides and “hands and pans” cooking videos on social media to Mister Rogers's classic factory tours, representations of the step-by-step fabrication of objects and food are ubiquitous in popular media. In The Process Genre Salomé Aguilera Skvirsky introduces and theorizes the process genre—a heretofore unacknowledged and untheorized transmedial genre characterized by its representation of chronologically ordered steps in which some form of labor results in a finished product. Originating in the fifteenth century with machine drawings, and now including everything from cookbooks to instructional videos and art cinema, the process genre achieves its most powerful affective and ideological results in film. By visualizing technique and absorbing viewers into the actions of social actors and machines, industrial, educational, ethnographic, and other process films stake out diverse ideological positions on the meaning of labor and on a society's level of technological development. In systematically theorizing a genre familiar to anyone with access to a screen, Skvirsky opens up new possibilities for film theory.
Salomé Aguilera Skvirsky is Assistant Professor of Cinema and Media Studies at the University of Chicago.
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
Erscheinungsdatum | 21.03.2020 |
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Zusatzinfo | 224 illustrations, incl. 60 in color |
Verlagsort | North Carolina |
Sprache | englisch |
Maße | 156 x 235 mm |
Gewicht | 590 g |
Themenwelt | Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Film / TV |
Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Kunstgeschichte / Kunststile | |
Sozialwissenschaften ► Kommunikation / Medien ► Medienwissenschaft | |
ISBN-10 | 1-4780-0644-7 / 1478006447 |
ISBN-13 | 978-1-4780-0644-2 / 9781478006442 |
Zustand | Neuware |
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