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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. This book 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 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 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.
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