[ecrea] Call for chapters Cinema of Crisis

*Call for chapters*

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*/Cinema of Crisis: Film and Contemporary Europe/*

Now more than ever, the idea of Europe as grounded in a shared cultural 
heritage cannot be taken for granted. For all its diversity, complexity 
and internal tensions, Europe remains a powerful economic and political 
superstate. But it is one in crisis, where the postwar social democratic 
consensus has collapsed, the failings of neoliberalism have led to 
widespread austerity, and extremism, xenophobia and racism are on the rise.

This collection of original essays will consider filmmakers’ engagements 
with pressing issues of the moment via popular genres, documentary, art 
cinema, experimental film, intermedia work and gallery installations.

We invite contributions that focus on creative responses to topics such as:

Political upheaval (politics as morality; ‘de-democratisation’; the rise 
of nativist, nationalist, and racist groupings; failures of the centre 
left; reinventing politics and the return of the left; Brexit and its 
ramifications; Trump and Europe)

Economics (austerity and its affects;labour conditions and the ‘gig 
economy’; precarity; class, gender and inequality under neoliberalism; 
the continued hollowing out of manufacturing; privatisation and the 
erosion of the welfare state; automation anxiety)

Society (inequality; the scapegoating of immigrants and the poor; zoning 
and social exclusion; polarisation along generational / regional / 
ethnic / gender / cultural and class lines; Fortress Europe and the 
migrant / refugee ‘crisis’; environmental pressures; post-war history, 
memorialisation and memory disputes; security threats and discourses 
(states of emergency; fear, insecurity, surveillance; cyber attacks; 
terrorism etc)

Please send 300 word proposals to both Thomas Austin and Angelos 
Koutsourakis by November 30, 2017.

(t.r.austin /at/ sussex.ac.uk)

(a.koutsourakis /at/ leeds.ac.uk)


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