The Great Recession in Fiction, Film, and Television Twenty-First-Century Bust Culture |
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| Editor:
| Boyle, Kirk
Mrozowski, Daniel |
| Contribution by:
| Barrett-Fox, Rebecca
Cornelson, Jesseca
Domet, Sarah
Erigha, Maryann
Hamblin, Sarah
Mattingly, Daniel
Miller, April
Rubin, Lance
Stone, James
Valdez, Charli |
| ISBN: | 978-0-7391-8064-8 |
| Publication Date: | Jan 2013 |
| Publisher: | Lexington Books/Fortress Academic
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| Book Format: | Digital (delivered electronically) |
| List Price: | USD $94.99 |
Book Description:
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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...
More DescriptionThe 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.