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 freemarket economics will resolve racism, climate change, and imperialism, their magical thinking actually fuels the crises. M...
Spis treści
1 Introduction: Neoliberal Fantasies.- 2 (Neo)liberalism and the Banal Apocalypse.- 3 Cinematic Enchantment and the Magic of the Market.- 4
Candyman and Neoliberal...
O autorze
Michael J. Blouin is Assistant Professor at Milligan College, USA. He maintains research interests in film studies, critical theory, transnationalism, and popular culture....
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