Magical Thinking, Fantastic Film, and the Illusions of Neoliberalism
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Beschreibung
This book analyzes how contemporary popular films with fantastic themes, including Candyman, Frozen, The Cabin in the Woods, and The Incredible Burt Wonderstone, cultivate neoliberal subjectivities. These films promise dramatic change, but they too often deliver more of the same. Although proponents maintain the illusion that the militant enforcement of free-market economics will resolve racism, climate change, and imperialism, their magical thinking actually fuels the crises. Magical Thinking, Fantastic Film, and the Illusions of Neoliberalism explores the ways in which the visual economies of Hollywood fantasy compliment this particular political economy.
This book analyzes how contemporary popular films with fantastic themes, including Candyman, Frozen, The Cabin in the Woods, and The Incredible Burt Wonderstone, cultivate neoliberal subjectivities. These films promise dramatic change, but they too often deliver more of the same. Although proponents maintain the illusion that the militant enforcement of free-market economics will resolve racism, climate change, and imperialism, their magical thinking actually fuels the crises.Magical Thinking, Fantastic Film, and the Illusions of Neoliberalism explores the ways in which the visual economies of Hollywood fantasy compliment this particular political economy.
One of the first books to scrutinize the ways in which the fashionable radicalism of popular culture supplants the formulation of genuine alternatives in a neoliberal context Examines how popular fantastical works cast a spell on audiences to distract them from the seriousness of the issues that they face, including racism, climate change, and American imperialism Interrogates aesthetic as a function of cultural mood
Autor*in
Michael J. Blouin
Themen in »Magical Thinking, Fantastic Film, and the Illusions of Neoliberalism«
Neoliberalism The Fantastic Hollywood Neoliberal racism Climate Change America American cinema arts cinema culture film film and television film history history media