Eugene Nulman

How Popular Culture Destroys Our Political Imagination (eBook, PDF)

Capitalism and Its Alternatives in Film and Television

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Produktbeschreibung

How Popular Culture Destroys our Political Imagination: Capitalism and its Alternatives in Film and Television explores the representations of capitalism, the state, and their alternatives in popular screen media texts.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 272
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. November 2024
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781040184554
• Artikelnr.: 72286004

Autorenporträt

Eugene Nulman is Associate Professor of Sociology at the Università degli Studi di Firenze in Florence, Italy. He has previously worked at the Scuola Normale Superiore in Florence, Italy and at Birmingham City University in Birmingham, UK. He has written on the subject of popular culture and society and social movements, with a focus on climate activism. He is the author of the books Coronavirus Capitalism Goes to the Cinema (2021) and Climate Change and Social Movements: Civil Society and the Development of National Climate Change Policy (2015). He has published academic work in journals such as Third World Quarterly, Media, Culture and Society, Journal of Youth Studies, and Environmental Politics.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
1. Neoliberalism, TINA, and the Titanic Effects
2. Research Methods
3. Eight Limited Critiques of Capitalism: Mapping the Terrain
4. Representations of Evil: A Cinematic Anthropology of Villains
5. Structural Critiques in Film and TV: Mr. Moneybags and the Hidden Abode
6. Representations of Crises, Colonialism, and Consumerism: Fat Cats,
Starving Dogs, and Tulip Bulbs
7. Transferable Radicalness: Alternative Lifestyles in Film and TV
8. Radical Resistance in The Lego Movie: The Building Blocks of Utopia
9. Utopian Conclusions: Yesterday, Today, & Tomorrowland
Appendix I: Films/Television Programs Analyzed