{"product_id":"9781517908553-clocking-out","title":"Clocking Out","description":"\u003cmeta content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\" http-equiv=\"Content-Type\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe Machinery of Life in 1960s Italian Cinema. \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAn original reflection on Italy’s postwar boom considers potentials for resistance in today’s neoliberal (dis)order\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e What can 1960s Italian cinema teach us about how to live and work today? \u003ci\u003eClocking Out\u003c\/i\u003e challenges readers to think about labor, cinema, and machines as they are intertwined in complex ways in Italian cinema of the early ’60s. Drawing on critical theory and archival research, this book asks what kinds of fractures we might exploit for living otherwise, for resisting traditional narratives, and for anticapitalism. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eItaly in the 1960s was a place where the mass-producing factory was the primary mode of understanding what it meant to work, but it was also a time when things might have gone another way. This thinking and living differently appears in the cracks, lapses, or moments of film. \u003ci\u003eClocking Out\u003c\/i\u003e is organized into scenes from an obscure 1962 Italian comedy (\u003ci\u003eRenzo e Luciana\u003c\/i\u003e, from \u003ci\u003eBoccaccio 70\u003c\/i\u003e). Reconsidering the origins of paradigms such as clocking in and out, “society is a factory,” and the gendered division of labor, Karen Pinkus challenges readers to think through cinema, enabling us to see gaps and breakdowns in the postwar order. She focuses on the Olivetti typewriter company and a little-known film from an Italian anthology movie, thinking with cinema about the power of the Autonomia movement, the refusal to work, and the questions of wages, paternalism, and sexual difference. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAlternating microscopic attention to details and zooming outward, Pinkus examines rituals of production, automation, repetition, and fractures in a narrative of labor that begins in the 1960s and extends to the present—the age of the precariat, right-wing resentment, and nostalgia for an order that was probably never was.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rarewaves","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40914869682273,"sku":"9781517908553","price":18.54,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0092\/7504\/8033\/files\/da7117179249229aacc7863900390488.png?v=1692766574","url":"https:\/\/www.rarewaves.com\/products\/9781517908553-clocking-out","provider":"Rarewaves.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}