Overview
- Examines how specific urban spaces, infrastructures and aesthetics recur in a variety of contemporary crisis films, documentaries, novels and journalistic photography.
- Maps narrative tropes that shape the cultural imaginary of the global financial crisis and questions the politics of popular crisis discourses.
- Brings together concepts and methods from cultural, media and communication studies, anthropology, philosophy, sociology, geography and political economy
Part of the book series: Palgrave Studies in Globalization, Culture and Society (PSGCS)
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This book analyzes how the Global Financial Crisis is portrayed in contemporary popular culture, using examples from film, literature and photography. In particular, the book explores why particular urban spaces, infrastructures and aesthetics – such as skyline shots in the opening credits of financial crisis films – recur in contemporary crisis narratives. Why are cities and finance connected in the cultural imaginary? Which ideologies do urban crisis imaginaries communicate? How do these imaginaries relate to the notion of crisis? To consider these questions, the book reads crisis narratives through the lens of myth. It combines perspectives from cultural, media and communication studies, anthropology, philosophy, geography and political economy to argue that the concept of myth can offer new and nuanced insights into the structure and politics of popular financial crisis imaginaries. In so doing, the book also asks if, how and under what conditions urban crisis imaginaries open up or foreclose systematic and political understandings of the Global Financial Crisis as a symptom of the broader process of financialization.
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Book Title: Narrating the Global Financial Crisis
Book Subtitle: Urban Imaginaries and the Politics of Myth
Authors: Miriam Meissner
Series Title: Palgrave Studies in Globalization, Culture and Society
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-45411-5
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2017
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-45410-8Published: 06 June 2017
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-83286-9Published: 28 July 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-45411-5Published: 25 May 2017
Series ISSN: 2730-9282
Series E-ISSN: 2730-9290
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XII, 252
Number of Illustrations: 29 illustrations in colour
Topics: Media and Communication, Documentary, Photography, Journalism, Fiction, Finance, general