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IN A STATE OF EXCEPTION:
POLITICAL SUBJECTHOOD IN EUROPEAN FILM, 1990-2008
by
Alex Lykidis
A Dissertation Presented to the
FACULTY OF THE GRADUATE SCHOOL
UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
In Partial Fulfillment of the
Requirements for the Degree
DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY
(CINEMATIC ARTS-CRITICAL STUDIES)
August 2009
Copyright 2009 Alex Lykidis
Object Description
| Title | In a state of exception: political subjecthood in European film, 1990-2008 |
| Author | Lykidis, Alex |
| Author email | alexlykidis@hotmail.com; lykidis@usc.edu |
| Degree | Doctor of Philosophy |
| Document type | Dissertation |
| Degree program | Cinema-Television (Critical Studies) |
| School | School of Cinematic Arts |
| Date defended/completed | 2009-06-16 |
| Date submitted | 2009 |
| Restricted until | Unrestricted |
| Date published | 2009-07-21 |
| Advisor (committee chair) | Jaikumar, Priya |
| Advisor (committee member) |
Kinder, Marsha Gilmore, Ruth Wilson |
| Abstract | The articulation of political subjecthood in contemporary Europe is delimited by increasingly neoliberal, technocratic and transnational modes of governance that alienate mass constituencies from democratic practice. The resulting disenfranchisement is heightened for immigrant and minority subjects denied citizenship rights and living under the constant threat of deportation. Paradoxically, these marginalized groups find themselves in the middle of contemporary European debates about the shifting relationship between national identity, the state and democratic politics, something reflected in the prevalence of contemporary European films about immigrant and minority issues. In a period marked by political exclusion, film practice has become an important arena for the performative assertion of subjecthood and agency. This dissertation uses a case-study approach to investigate post-1989 cinematic representations of minority and immigrant subjecthood at three different scales of European political and film industrial power: France, a major power in European politics boasting the continent’s largest and most successful film industry; Greece, a peripheral European nation with an established national film culture that rarely gains international exposure; and Romanies, the most persecuted and marginalized ethnic group in Europe with a nascent film practice unable to rely on dedicated state support. Through a comparative analysis of films by Michael Haneke, Tony Gatlif and several Greek filmmakers including Panos Karkanevatos and Constantine Giannaris, this study aims to show that the shifting modalities of political power in contemporary Europe have placed a strain on traditional definitions of art cinema, minority cinema and national cinema, necessitating that we reconsider both political agency and film practice, as well as their interrelation. |
| Keyword | contemporary European cinema; citizenship and immigration; Greece; France; Roma; democratic disenfranchisement; art cinema; national cinema; minority cinema; Michael Haneke; Tony Gatlif |
| Coverage date | 1990/2008 |
| Language | English |
| Part of collection | University of Southern California dissertations and theses |
| Publisher (of the original version) | University of Southern California |
| Place of publication (of the original version) | Los Angeles, California |
| Publisher (of the digital version) | University of Southern California. Libraries |
| Provenance | Electronically uploaded by the author |
| Type | texts |
| Legacy record ID | usctheses-m2383 |
| Rights | Lykidis, Alex |
| Repository name | Libraries, University of Southern California |
| Repository address | Los Angeles, California |
| Repository email | http://www.usc.edu/isd/libraries/services/ask_a_librarian/email/ |
| Filename | etd-Lykidis-3074 |
| Archival file | uscthesesreloadpub_Volume32/etd-Lykidis-3074.pdf |
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| Full text | IN A STATE OF EXCEPTION: POLITICAL SUBJECTHOOD IN EUROPEAN FILM, 1990-2008 by Alex Lykidis A Dissertation Presented to the FACULTY OF THE GRADUATE SCHOOL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY (CINEMATIC ARTS-CRITICAL STUDIES) August 2009 Copyright 2009 Alex Lykidis |
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