Putting the dead to work: making sense of worker suicide in contemporary French and Francophone Belgian film.
Contemporary French and Francophone Belgian cinema has produced a wave of worker suicides that outdoes even Jean Gabin's repeated cinematic deaths of the later 1930s. This article discusses its significance in the context of neo-liberalism and develops an analytical toolkit for making sense of it, t...
| Published in: | Studies in French Cinema Vol. 19; no. 4; pp. 314 - 335 |
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