Clocking Out: The Machinery of Life in 1960s Italian Cinema
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Clocking Out: The Machinery of Life in 1960s Italian Cinema
By (Author) Karen Pinkus
University of Minnesota Press
University of Minnesota Press
14th April 2020
United States
Classifications
General
Non Fiction
741.430945
Physical Properties
Hardback
152
Width 127mm, Height 203mm, Spine 25mm
Description
An original reflection on Italy's postwar boom considers potentials for resistance in today's neoliberal (dis)order What can 1960s Italian cinema teach us about how to live and work today Clocking Out challenges readers to think about labor, cinema, and machines as they are intertwined in complex ways in Italian cinema of the early '60s. Drawi
Reviews
"In this wonderfully inventive and beautifully written book, Karen Pinkus adopts a cinematic lens to capture the dynamism of cultural production and social life in early 1960s Italy. But the questions she investigatesabout the transformations of work by technology, the relations between humans and machines, and the powers of cinema for social analysisare just as urgent for understanding todays social world."Michael Hardt, coauthor of Assembly
"Clocking Out is a fascinating analysis of Italys rapid transition to a modern industrial economy. Using cinema as a way to explore workplaces, machines, and automation in the 1960s, Karen Pinkus provides brilliant insights into human relations and patterns of leisure, gender, and consumption. Well-known for her striking treatments of mediatized realities in such acclaimed books including Bodily Regimes and The Montesi Scandal, in this volume Pinkus forges illuminating connections between 1960s debates and more recent discussions of the digital and the post-human. This volume is essential reading for anyone interested in Italian cinema, modernization, and social change."Stephen Gundle, University of Warwick
"Karen Pinkus has written a captivating and challenging account on the time element in workers lives, seen through the lens of mainly Italian filmmakers."Historical Journal of Film, Radio, and Television
Author Bio
Karen Pinkus is professor of Italian and comparative literature at Cornell University. Among her books are Bodily Regimes: Italian Advertising under Fascism, The Montesi Scandal: The Death of Wilma Montesi and the Birth of the Paparazzi in Fellinis Rome, and Fuel: A Speculative Dictionary (Minnesota, 2016). She is editor of diacritics.
