{"product_id":"rumble-and-crash-crises-of-capitalism-in-contemporary-film-suny-series-horizons-of-cinema-9781438472805","title":"Rumble and Crash Crises of Capitalism in","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAnalyzes six films as allegories of capitalism''s precarious state in the early twenty-first century.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAt the beginning of the twenty-first century, as the contradictions of capitalism became more apparent than at any other time since the 1920s, numerous films gave allegorical form to the crises of contemporary capitalism. Some films were overtly political in nature, while others refracted the vicissitudes of capital in stories that were not, on the surface, explicitly political. \u003ci\u003eRumble and Crash\u003c\/i\u003e examines six particularly rich and thought-provoking films in this vein. These films, Milo Sweedler argues, give narrative and audiovisual form to the increasingly pervasive sense that the economic system we have known and accepted as inevitable and ubiquitous is in fact riddled with self-destructive flaws. Analyzing four movies from before the global financial crisis of 2008 and two that allegorize the financial meltdown itself, Sweedler explores how cinema responded to one of the defining crises of our time. Films examined include Alfonso Cuarón''s \u003ci\u003eChildren of Men\u003c\/i\u003e (2006), Stephen Gaghan''s \u003ci\u003eSyriana\u003c\/i\u003e (2005), Fernando Meirelles''s \u003ci\u003eThe Constant Gardener\u003c\/i\u003e (2005), Spike Lee''s \u003ci\u003eInside Man\u003c\/i\u003e (2006), Martin Scorsese''s \u003ci\u003eThe Wolf of Wall Street\u003c\/i\u003e (2013), and Woody Allen''s \u003ci\u003eBlue Jasmine\u003c\/i\u003e (2013).\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"State University of New York Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51039737872727,"sku":"9781438472805","price":22.96,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781438472805.jpg?v=1750944656","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/rumble-and-crash-crises-of-capitalism-in-contemporary-film-suny-series-horizons-of-cinema-9781438472805","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}