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Political Economy Goes to the Movies (Paperback)
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Political Economy Goes to the Movies provides an introduction to
political economy using a wide range of popular films and
documentaries as the objects of analysis. The work helps readers to
understand and analyze the economic and related political,
cultural, and ecological relationships depicted in selected films.
This is achieved through the lens of past and present economic
theories and in the context of debates over the dynamic influence
of economics on individual life chances. Film may have more to
teach us about the real world than the abstractions of certain
economic theories. A world of income inequality, child labor in
mills and mines, local rebellions against land seizures, and wars
triggered by economic conflicts provide the context for many films
mirroring real world events. Some films depict the interacting and
intersecting political, economic, cultural, and ecological contexts
within and between variant economic relationships, whereas other
films show "catastrophes" such as economic depressions, disruptive
social transitions, violent revolutions, and existential
environmental degradation - a world in disequilibrium. Films allow
us to see a panoply of human social relationships and related
problems, even to explore cataclysmic moments in our species life,
but not to necessarily see the why of these relationships and
problems. Simultaneously, mainstream economics has severe
constraints on what can be analyzed. Film exposes this weakness of
the mainstream model. Twelve Years a Slave, Trumbo, The Big Short
and others are analyzed for their realism by referencing documented
historical social events, and behavioral economics provides further
data for analyzing the realism of social interaction within the
films. Exploring events and contexts absent from the typical
economics text or the basic level economics classes, this work is
essential reading for students and scholars of political economy in
both economics and politics departments, as well as those of
pluralist economics and Marxist economics.
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