Great Recession in Fiction, Film, and Television

The Great Recession in Fiction, Film, and Television: Twenty-first-Century Bust Culture examines pop artifacts not typically included in discussions of the financial meltdown; the collected essays treat our busted culture as a seismograph that registers the traumas of collapse. In accessible, intellectually rigorous prose, each essay locates their subject from disaster films to graphic novels along a spectrum of ideological fantasies, social erasures, and profound anxieties inspired by...
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The Great Recession in Fiction, Film, and Television: Twenty-first-Century Bust Culture examines pop artifacts not typically included in discussions of the financial meltdown; the collected essays treat our busted culture as a seismograph that registers the traumas of collapse. In accessible, intellectually rigorous prose, each essay locates their subject from disaster films to graphic novels along a spectrum of ideological fantasies, social erasures, and profound anxieties inspired by the Great Recession. "