tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31783628.post2554934373327149630..comments2024-02-21T06:57:22.256-05:00Comments on Unemployed Negativity: Open Question: Work and Filmunemployed negativityhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01251742512967070290noreply@blogger.comBlogger11125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31783628.post-63836540491656790092009-05-03T19:32:00.000-04:002009-05-03T19:32:00.000-04:00Check out the Spanish film The MethodCheck out the Spanish film <A HREF="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0427582/" REL="nofollow">The Method</A>Michaelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14256564770318269688noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31783628.post-13562392106788719952009-03-16T00:48:00.000-04:002009-03-16T00:48:00.000-04:00It's been a long while since I've seen it but you ...It's been a long while since I've seen it but you might consider Finally Got The News, by the League of Revolutionary Black Workers.Natehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08918436253681803057noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31783628.post-64091396436470473112009-03-03T19:42:00.000-05:002009-03-03T19:42:00.000-05:00oooh, from the Mr. Mom era, there is also Gung Ho!...oooh, from the Mr. Mom era, there is also Gung Ho!darknessatnoonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11236909069753318941noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31783628.post-14634144661467299092009-03-03T17:42:00.000-05:002009-03-03T17:42:00.000-05:00Oh, and there is Lizzie Borden's "Working Girls" a...Oh, and there is Lizzie Borden's "Working Girls" about the menial labor of prostitution. <BR/><BR/>- Sharifdarknessatnoonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11236909069753318941noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31783628.post-57816078016775674032009-03-03T17:39:00.000-05:002009-03-03T17:39:00.000-05:00What about Mr. Mom? It's about the "Japanese Invas...What about Mr. Mom? <BR/><BR/>It's about the "Japanese Invasion" of the American industrial sector. There were a spate of these films in the 80s. <BR/><BR/>Of course you should read the Siegfried Kracauer book "The Salaried Masses," especially if you do look at Cantet's movie. <BR/>- Sharifdarknessatnoonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11236909069753318941noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31783628.post-73466868488348710422009-03-01T01:07:00.000-05:002009-03-01T01:07:00.000-05:00Modern Times. Excerpts from Metropolis. There's a ...Modern Times. Excerpts from Metropolis. There's a great list of films here - http://www.laborheritage.org/videos.htm - several of which would be good for the feminism part too (on that, if you've not read it I highly recommend Jeanne Boydston's book Home and Work, or the article she did in Radical History Review prior to the book). <BR/>I'd love to see the syllabus when it's done.<BR/>take care,<BR/>NateNatehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08918436253681803057noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31783628.post-16729580105147928642009-02-26T23:18:00.000-05:002009-02-26T23:18:00.000-05:00Comments makes me think of Jia Zhang Ke's Still Li...Comments makes me think of Jia Zhang Ke's Still Life which is quite accessible. Not so much on labor per se but rather the lack of it: migration, homelessness etc. good remarks on women vs. men's work in a time of destruction also. Smoking, drinking and eating are also a major theme. Also insanely hilarious. nuff said: This guy is one of the best film makers out there.readingmaohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08898122061437632648noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31783628.post-25697637657169412672009-02-20T16:27:00.000-05:002009-02-20T16:27:00.000-05:00I keep thinking, as I'm wont to do anyway, about C...I keep thinking, as I'm wont to do anyway, about Cassavetes's movies and how work plays an important but not exclusive or central role in the movie. And with the exception of <EM>Woman Under the Influence</EM>, they don't relate to Fordist production: the stage performers and their impresario in <EM>Shadows</EM> and <EM>Killing of a Chinese Bookie</EM>, the actors in <EM>Opening Night</EM>, a gallery owner in <EM>Minnie and Moskowitz</EM>, the studio execs in <EM>Faces</EM>. In other words, they might be more on the "immaterial labor" end of things, both in the sense that they create an immaterial product and that the division between worktime and non-work-time is blurred or even invisible (especially in <EM>Opening Night</EM>). <BR/><BR/>I also remember a couple of good and funny scenes about work in <EM>Not One Less</EM>Erichttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00749190768315704456noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31783628.post-61720545885371011752009-02-20T05:22:00.000-05:002009-02-20T05:22:00.000-05:00I think Agnes Varda's work is perhaps the best por...I think Agnes Varda's work is perhaps the best portrayal on the creation of spaces of non -capitalisitc work under capitalism. Perhaps her film Vagabond as well as her Documentary 'The gleaners and I' and her follow up 'The Gleaner: 2 years later'. <BR/><BR/>'Naked Island' by Kaneto Shinoda is worth checking out as is Hiroshi Teshigahara's film Pitfall set against the background of labour relations in Japan's mining industry. <BR/><BR/>Wang Bing's ground breaking 9 hour documentary on the fate of China's socialist working class in its NE rust belts is in my opinion the most intimate and devastating portrayal of the death of the fordist dream, be it capitalist or state socialist.heavy industryhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11913557822573840128noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31783628.post-61157334241646769002009-02-19T23:37:00.000-05:002009-02-19T23:37:00.000-05:00Thanks Steven. I loved L'emploi du temps, and was ...Thanks Steven. I loved L'emploi du temps, and was fascinated by it ever since I heard the story, but had not thought of it in this context. I have read many of Beller's articles and have always found them interesting, they helped me develop a more materialist understanding of Deleuze's cinema books, but I have not read the book.unemployed negativityhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01251742512967070290noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31783628.post-21989670836116171022009-02-19T21:29:00.000-05:002009-02-19T21:29:00.000-05:00Check out, perhaps, Laurent Cantet's Human Resourc...Check out, perhaps, Laurent Cantet's Human Resources (Ressources humaines) or Time Out (L'emploi du temps). Possibly the first part of Godard's British Sounds (you can find it on youtube). For Eisenstein, take a look at The General Line (though it is hard to find, I think).<BR/><BR/>Also, a book I can recommend if you haven't already seen it: Jonathan Beller's The Cinematic Mode of Production.Steven Shavirohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11863392248649173118noreply@blogger.com