The Cinema of the Precariat

Tom Zaniello is Professor Emeritus, having taught film and cultural studies, and directed the Honors Program at Northern Kentucky University, USA. He has been active as a film programmer for the Hill Center in Washington DC and for the London and North West (Liverpool) Labour Film Festivals. He recently published California’s Lamson Murder Mystery (2016), the story of the wrongful conviction of a Hollywood screenwriter for murder, along with Working Stiffs, Union Maids, Reds, and Riffraff: An Expanded Guide to Films about Labor, 2nd ed. (2003) and The Cinema of Globalization (2007).

Acknowledgements
List of Illustrations
Preface

Introduction

Chapter 1: Harvest of Shame: The First Series of Films about the Precariat
Chapter 2: Internal Migration in China
Chapter 3: Scavengers of the World, Unite!
Chapter 4: Epidemic Cinema and Catastrophic Mise en Scene
Chapter 5: Precious Cargo: Exploiting Minerals, Fossil Fuels, and Foodstuffs
Chapter 6: The Cyberprecariat in the Shadows of Utopia
Chapter 7: Out of the Gallery and Into the Street
Chapter 8: Video Games as Cinema: All Work, All Play
Chapter 9: Top Down--Business as Usual: Fifty Films about Capitalism in the 21st Century
Chapter 10: Bottom Up--A Conclusion: Alt-Labor and Organizing the Unorganized

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