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Author Lee, Toby, author.

Title The public life of cinema : conflict and collectivity in austerity Greece / Toby Lee
Published Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2020]
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Description 1 online resource (xiii, 193 pages) : illustrations
Contents Introduction : "Is culture a luxury?" -- Locating the festival -- Forms of publicness -- Histories of conflict and collectivity -- Dissensus and its limits -- The value of mereness
Summary "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"-- Provided by publisher
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Description based on print version record and CIP data provided by publisher
SUBJECT Phestival Kinēmatographou Thessalonikēs (50th : 2009 : Thessalonikē, Greece) http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no2019035417
Phestival Kinēmatographou Thessalonikēs fast
Subject Independent films -- Political aspects -- Greece -- 21st century
Film festivals -- Greece -- Thessalonikē
PERFORMING ARTS / Film & Video / History & Criticism
Film festivals
Greece
Greece -- Thessalonikē
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2020013471
ISBN 9780520976481
0520976487