The post-crash decade of American cinema : Wall Street, the "Mancession” and the political construction of crisis

The post-crash decade of American cinema : Wall Street, the "Mancession” and the political construction of crisis

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The post-crash decade of American cinema : Wall Street, the "Mancession” and the political construction of crisis

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title:	The post-crash decade of American cinema : Wall Street, the "Mancession” and the political construction of crisis
author:	Kowal Ewa
series editor:	Bazarnik Katarzyna , Kucała Bożena , Kusek Robert
date of publication :	2019
place of publication : name of publisher:	Kraków : Jagiellonian University Press
pages:	254
ISBN:	978-83-233-4772-9
eISBN:	978-83-233-7105-2
series:	Topografie (Po)nowoczesności. Studia nad Literaturą Anglojęzyczną XX i XXI wieku
language:	English
abstract in English:	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? Timely, 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.
keywords in Polish:	kryzys, kultura Wall Street, globalny kryzys finansowy 2007/8, kapitalizm, badania nad męskościami, feminizm
keywords in English:	crisis, 2008 financial crash, 2007/8 financial crisis, Wall Street culture, masculinities studies, feminism, postfeminism, capitalism
number of pulisher's sheets:	15,8
affiliation:	Wydział Filologiczny : Instytut Filologii Angielskiej
type:	book
subtype:	monography