Title The post-crash decade of American cinema : Wall Street, the "Mancession," and the political construction of crisis / Ewa Kowal

Edition First edition Published Kraków : Jagiellonian University Press, 2019

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Description 1 online resource (251 pages) : illustrations Series Topographies of (post)modernity : studies in 20th and 21st century literature in English Topomo. Contents The Super-CEO, the Financial Crash in Hollywood Cinema and the Preservation of Patriarchal Power in Oliver Stone's Wall Street and Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps -- The Pornography of Corporate Capitalism: The Wolf of Wall Street -- A Funeral, Fun and Games, and the First Gun in Margin Call, The Big Short and Money Monster -- The "Mancession" and Nostalgia for When "Men Knew Who They Were": Power Tools, More Guns and Moral Comfort in The Company Men and Hell or High Water -- Home in 99 Homes and The Florida Project: Women and Children Last Summary Crisis defines the present cultural moment. From the environment, through migration, to democracy, a continuous state of emergency engulfs us - so much so that crisis appears to be one of the few things not in crisis. The Post-Crash Decade of American Cinema: Wall Street, the "Mancession" and the Political Construction of Crisis focuses on two instances of this overwhelming trend: the latest masculinity crisis and what helped trigger it - the 2008 global financial crash. Looking at selected American cinematic texts of culture from the subsequent ten years, depicting both the causes of the crash and its victims, the volume offers answers to the questions: how has (popular) culture, in particular literature and film, responded to the greatest economic upheaval since the Great Depression, and what conclusions can be drawn from this response?0Timely, interdisciplinary and in-depth, this analysis combines literary and cultural studies, as well as feminist criticism, gender studies and masculinities studies with research on the latest history of political economy to interrelate such diverse phenomena as capitalism, "Wall Street culture", the "Mancession" myth, Donald Trump, pornography, patriarchy, neoliberalism, precarity, postfeminism, the fourth wave of feminism, the #MeToo movement, 9/11, home, housing studies, positive psychology, and happiness studies. Ultimately, the book problematises the very concept of "crisis", elucidating it as a powerful political construct Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 223-243), filmography (pages 219-221), and indexes Notes Print version record Subject Motion pictures -- United States -- History -- 21st century Financial crises in literature. Global Financial Crisis, 2008-2009. Financial crises in literature Motion pictures United States Genre/Form History Form Electronic book ISBN 8323371059 9788323371052

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