'anomie' in Film After Film: (Or, What Became of 21st Century Cinema?)

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lack of the usual social or ethical standards in an individual or group, which lessens social cohesion and fosters decline; popularized by French sociologist Émile Durkheim in his influential book Suicide

A techno-pop score, the first unmotivated music in any Jia film, provides a sense of voluptuous anomie, while shots of an empty highway add to the sedated sci-fi quality.

—p.225 Part III: Notes Toward a Syllabus (191) by J. Hoberman

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anomie (en)

Film After Film: (Or, What Became of 21st Century Cinema?)
by J. Hoberman

Film After Film: (Or, What Became of 21st Century Cinema?)
by J. Hoberman

Film After Film: (Or, What Became of 21st Century Cinema?)
by J. Hoberman

anomie (en)

Film After Film: (Or, What Became of 21st Century Cinema?) by J. Hoberman

Film After Film: (Or, What Became of 21st Century Cinema?) by J. Hoberman

Film After Film: (Or, What Became of 21st Century Cinema?) by J. Hoberman

Film After Film: (Or, What Became of 21st Century Cinema?)
by J. Hoberman

Film After Film: (Or, What Became of 21st Century Cinema?)
by J. Hoberman

Film After Film: (Or, What Became of 21st Century Cinema?)
by J. Hoberman