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). Patricia Anne Simpson is Professor of German at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, USA. She publishes widely on German cultural studies from the early modern era to the present. She is currently completing a book-length study of coloniality and decolonial discourses and practices in German-speaking Europe.

Acknowledgements

Introduction: A Cinema Against Precarity and Predatory Neoliberalism

1. Working-Class Solidarity as Project in Contemporary Franco-Belgian Factory Films
Helga Druxes (Williams College, USA)

2. Arts of Resistance in the Post-Socialist Workplace
Patricia Anne Simpson (University of Nebraska-Lincoln, USA)

3. Fevered Dreams of Neoliberalism in Films Made for the Russian Market
Alexandar Mihailovic (Bennington College, USA)

4. The Neoliberalization of Russia in the Films of Andrei Zvyagintsev
Alexandar 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 Cinema
Helga Druxes (Williams College, USA)

7. Aging Out of the American Workplace: Intentional Communities and the Lure of the Open Road
Helga Druxes (Williams College, USA)

Epilogue
Helga Druxes (Williams College, USA), Patricia Anne Simpson (University of Nebraska-Lincoln, USA), Alexandar Mihailovic (Bennington College, USA)

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