The great recession in fiction, film, and television

The great recession in fiction film and television twenty-first-century bust culture sheds light on how imaginary works of fiction film and television reflect refract and respond the recessionary times specific the twenty-first read more century a sustained period of economic crisis that has earned the title the great recession this collection takes as its focus bust culture a concept that refers post-crash popular culture specifically the kind mass produced by multinational corporations in the age of media conglomeration which is inflected by diminishment influenced by scarcity and infused with anxiety. The multidisciplinary contributors collected here examine mass culture not typically included in discussions of the financial meltdown from disaster films reality tv hoarders the horror genre reactionary representations of women christian right radio batman television characters of color graphic novels and literary fiction the collected essays treat our busted culture as a seismograph ...