Sweedler Rumble and Crash

Crises of Capitalism in Contemporary Film
1. Auflage 2019
ISBN: 978-1-4384-7281-2
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: 6 - ePub Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, 222 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm

Reihe: SUNY series, Horizons of Cinema

Analyzes six films as allegories of capitalism’s precarious state in the early twenty-first century.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Sweedler, Milo

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Theater- und Filmwissenschaft | Andere Darstellende Künste Filmwissenschaft, Fernsehen, Radio Filmgeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Introduction

1. Exceptions and Rules: States of Emergency in Children of Men

2. Mapping Syriana

3. Corporate Murder in The Constant Gardener

4. Secrets of Primitive Accumulation: Inside Man

5. Fictitious Capital and Narrative Spin in The Wolf of Wall Street

6. The Meltdown and the Bailout without the Recovery: Blue Jasmine

Conclusion: Allegories for the Present

Notes
Bibliography
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Milo Sweedler is Associate Professor of French, Cultural Analysis, and Social Theory at Wilfrid Laurier University in Canada. He is the author of The Dismembered Community: Bataille, Blanchot, Leiris, and the Remains of Laure.