Magical thinking, fantastic film, and the illusions of neoliberalism / Michael J. Blouin.
Blouin, Michael J., author.
2016
PN1993.5.U6
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Title Magical thinking, fantastic film, and the illusions of neoliberalism / Michael J. Blouin.
Author Blouin, Michael J., author.
ISBN 9781137531643 (electronic book)
1137531649 (electronic book)
9781137531957
DOI https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-53164-3
Published New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2016.
Language English
Description 1 online resource : online resource
Other Standard Identifiers 10.1057/978-1-137-53164-3 doi
9781137531957
Call Number PN1993.5.U6
Dewey Decimal Classification 791.4301
Summary This book analyzes how contemporary popular films with fantastic themes, including Candyman, Frozen, The Cabin in the Woods, and The Incredible Burt Wonderstone, cultivate neoliberal subjectivities. These films promise dramatic change, but they too often deliver more of the same. Although proponents maintain the illusion that the militant enforcement of free-market economics will resolve racism, climate change, and imperialism, their magical thinking actually fuels the crises. Magical Thinking, Fantastic Film, and the Illusions of Neoliberalism explores the ways in which the visual economies of Hollywood fantasy compliment this particular political economy.
Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references and index.
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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.

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