Description
| Product ID: | 9780520379022 |
| Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
| Country of Manufacture: | US |
| Title: | The Public Life of Cinema |
| Subtitle: | Conflict and Collectivity in Austerity Greece |
| Authors: | Author: Toby Lee |
| Page Count: | 210 |
| Subjects: | Film history, theory or criticism, Film theory & criticism, General and world history, European history, History, Media studies, Social and cultural anthropology, General & world history, European history, 21st century history: from c 2000 -, Media studies, Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography, Greece, 21st century |
| Description: | Select Guide Rating Is culture a luxury? In this era of austerity, the value of the arts has been a topic of heated debate in Greece, where the country’s economic troubles have led to drastic cuts in public funding and much contention over the significance of cultural institutions and government-funded arts initiatives. At issue in these debates are larger questions regarding the very notions of publicness, hierarchies of value, and functions of the state that structure collective life. Beginning with the Thessaloniki International Film Festival, The Public Life of Cinema tracks this turbulence as it unfolded in the Greek film world in the early years of the crisis. Investigating the different forms of citizenship and collectivity being negotiated in cinema’s social spaces, this book considers how the arts and cultural production may illuminate the changing conditions of, and possibilities for, public and collective life in the neoliberal era. |
| Imprint Name: | University of California Press |
| Publisher Name: | University of California Press |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2020-11-03 |
