Women at Work in Twenty-First-Century European Cinema

by Barbara Mennel

From hairdressers and caregivers to reproductive workers and power-suited executives, images of women's labor have powered a fascinating new movement within twenty-first century European cinema. Social realist dramas capture precarious working conditions. Comedies exaggerate the habits of the global managerial class. Stories from countries battered by the global financial crisis emphasize the patriarchal family, debt, and unemployment. Barbara Mennel...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0252042220
• ISBN13: 9780252042225
• Release Date: January 2019
• Publisher: University of Illinois Press
• Length: 258 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.2" x 9.1"