Dedication; Acknowledgments; Note; Contents; List of Figures; Chapter 1: Introduction: Neoliberal Fantasies; The Evolution ofßNeoliberalism; The Janus Faces ofßNeoliberalism; Entrepreneurial Sight; A Framework; Notes; Chapter 2: (Neo)liberalism andßtheßBanal Apocalypse; Chains ofßElocution; Self-Enclosed Cycles; Apocalypse Without Alterity; (Male) Narcissism at theßEnd ofßtheßWorld; A Prolonged Slumber; The Inheritance ofßDreams; Notes; Chapter 3: Cinematic Enchantment andßtheßMagic ofßtheßMarket; The Disappearing Bureaucracy; The Improvisational Homo Economicus; A Divine Order.

Cinematic Talismans andßNeoliberal WorkA Visual Economy Perfected; Notes; Chapter 4: Candyman andßNeoliberal Racism; The End ofßRacism?; Color Reversals inßEarlier Works ofßHorror; "The Badge ofßInsult"; To Choose aßDifferent Myth; Pathologies andßHealing Hands; The Eyes That Launched aßThousand Ships; Notes; Chapter 5: Climate Change andßtheß"Greenwashing" ofßHollywood Fantasies; Magical Thinking fromßtheßMagic Kingdom; Reverse Pathetic Fallacies; Humanism andßaßBalanced Ledger; The Optics ofßNature; Pseudo-Transcendence andßtheß"Loving Eye"; Nature's Gaze; Notes.

Chapter 6: American Horror, Global Commons, andßThe Cabin inßtheßWoodsThe Neoliberal Game; The Interrogation Window andßIllusions ofßChoice; Foreign Horror andßtheßIllusion ofßFree Competition; American Nightmares andßtheßFailure toßDream Freely; "World Risk Society" andßtheßFalse Shocks ofßFamiliar Haunts; Notes; Chapter 7: Biopolitics andßMovies About Magic; Biopower andßtheßLabor ofßDebunking; Oedipus andßHomo Debitor; Self-Determining Spectators; Transitions; Or, theßDisappearing Audience; Biopolitical Production andßtheßMan inßtheßBox; Notes.

Chapter 8: CODA: The Hunger Games, The Watchmen, andßTheßConfused CriticApolitical Dystopias; Antiheroes andßtheßPrivatization ofßJustice; The Benefits ofßConfusion; Notes; Bibliography; Index.