The Great Recession in Fiction, Film, and Television

Download or read book The Great Recession in Fiction, Film, and Television written by Kirk Boyle and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2013-10-17 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.