@article{1439996,
      recid = {1439996},
      author = {Phillips, Kendall R.},
      title = {A cinema of hopelessness : the rhetoric of rage in 21st  Century popular culture /},
      pages = {1 online resource},
      abstract = {This book explores the circulation of anger and hostility  in contemporary American culture with particular attention  to the fantasy of refusal, a dream of rejecting all the  structures of the contemporary political and economic  system. Framing the question of public sentiment through  the lens of rhetorical studies, this book traces the  circulation of symbols that craft public feelings in  contemporary popular cinema. Analyzing popular twenty-first  century films as invitations to a particular way of  feeling, the book delves into the way popular sentiments  are circulated and intensified. The book examines dystopian  films (The Purge, The Cabin in the Woods), science fiction  (Snowpiercer), and superhero narratives (the Marvel  Cinematic Universe and Joker). Across these varied films,  an affective economy that emphasizes grief, betrayal,  refusal, and an underlying rage at the seeming hopelessness  of contemporary culture is uncovered. These examinations  are framed in terms of ongoing political protests ranging  from Occupy Wall Street, the Tea Party, Black Lives Matter,  and the 6th January 2021 invasion of the US Capitol  Building. Kendall R. Phillips is Professor of Communication  and Rhetorical Studies at Syracuse University, USA. His  publications include Projected Fears: Horror Films and  American Culture (2005), Dark Directions: Romero, Craven,  Carpenter and the Modern Horror Film (2012) and A Place of  Darkness: The Rhetoric of Horror in Early American Cinema  (2018).},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/1439996},
      doi = {https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-74136-5},
}