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Narrating the Global Financial Crisis: Urban Imaginaries and the Politics of Myth

Narrating the Global Financial Crisis: Urban Imaginaries and the Politics of Myth

Meissner, Miriam

Hardcover

Series: Palgrave Studies in Globalization, Culture and Society

Film StudiesGeneral PhotographyGeneral Sociology

ISBN10: 3319454102
ISBN13: 9783319454108
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: Jun 6 2017
Pages: 252
Weight: 1.28
Height: 0.88 Width: 5.83 Depth: 8.27
Language: English

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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