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Narrating the Global Financial Crisis - Urban Imaginaries and the Politics of Myth (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2017)
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Narrating the Global Financial Crisis - Urban Imaginaries and the Politics of Myth (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2017)
Series: Palgrave Studies in Globalization, Culture and Society
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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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