Analyzes six films as allegories of capitalism's precarious state in the early twenty-first century.
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 159-180) and index.
Contents
Exceptions and rules: states of emergency in Children of Men -- Mapping Syriana -- Corporate murder in The Constant Gardener -- Secrets of primitive accumulation: Inside Man -- Fictitious capital and narrative spin in The Wolf of Wall Street -- The meltdown and the bailout without the recovery: Blue Jasmine -- Conclusion: allegories for the present.
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