Film and the Anarchist Imagination

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by Richard Porton

Type

Studies

Subject

Genre > Politics

Keywords

politics, radical

Publishing date

2020

Publisher

University of Illinois Press

Language

English

Relative size

Physical desc.

Paperback • 352 pages
6 x 9 ¼ inches (15.5 x 23.5 cm)

ISBN

978-0-252-08524-6

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Book Presentation:
Anarchism's images, ideas, and influence in cinema

Hailed since its initial release, Film and the Anarchist Imagination offers the authoritative account of films featuring anarchist characters and motifs. Richard Porton 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, he focuses on films that, wittingly or otherwise, reflect or even promote workplace resistance, anarchist pedagogy, self-emancipation, and anti-statist insurrection. Porton ranges from the silent era to the classics Zéro de Conduite and Love and Anarchy to contemporary films like The Nothing Factory while engaging the works of Jean Vigo, Jean-Luc Godard, Lina Wertmüller, Yvonne Rainer, Ken Loach, and others. For this updated second edition, Porton reflects on several new topics, including the negative portrayals of anarchism over the past twenty years and the contemporary embrace of post-anarchism.

About the Author:
Richard Porton is an editor at Cineaste and has taught film studies at the College of Staten Island, Hunter College, Rutgers University, and New York University.

See the publisher website: University of Illinois Press