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Rumble and Crash

- Crises of Capitalism in Contemporary Film
Engelsk Paperback

Rumble and Crash

- Crises of Capitalism in Contemporary Film
Engelsk Paperback

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

At the beginning of the twenty-first century, as the contradictions of capitalism became more apparent than at any other time since the 1920s, numerous films gave allegorical form to the crises of contemporary capitalism. Some films were overtly political in nature, while others refracted the vicissitudes of capital in stories that were not, on the surface, explicitly political. Rumble and Crash examines six particularly rich and thought-provoking films in this vein. These films, Milo Sweedler argues, give narrative and audiovisual form to the increasingly pervasive sense that the economic system we have known and accepted as inevitable and ubiquitous is in fact riddled with self-destructive flaws. Analyzing four movies from before the global financial crisis of 2008 and two that allegorize the financial meltdown itself, Sweedler explores how cinema responded to one of the defining crises of our time. Films examined include Alfonso Cuarón''s Children of Men (2006), Stephen Gaghan''s Syriana (2005), Fernando Meirelles''s The Constant Gardener (2005), Spike Lee''s Inside Man (2006), Martin Scorsese''s The Wolf of Wall Street (2013), and Woody Allen''s Blue Jasmine (2013).

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Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
222
ISBN-13:
9781438472805
Indbinding:
Paperback
Udgave:
ISBN-10:
1438472803
Udg. Dato:
2 jan 2020
Længde:
0mm
Bredde:
152mm
Højde:
229mm
Forlag:
State University of New York Press
Oplagsdato:
2 jan 2020
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