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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 to the recessionary times specific to the twenty-first
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 to 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 to reality TV hoarders, the horror
genre to reactionary representations of women, Christian right
radio to Batman, television characters of color to graphic novels
and literary fiction. The collected essays treat our busted culture
as a seismograph that registers the traumas of collapse, and locate
their pop artifacts along a spectrum of ideological fantasies,
social erasures, and profound fears inspired by the Great
Recession. What they discover from these unlikely indicators of the
recession is a mix of regressive, progressive, and bemused texts in
need of critical translation.
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 to the recessionary times specific to the twenty-first
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 to 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 to reality TV hoarders, the horror
genre to reactionary representations of women, Christian right
radio to Batman, television characters of color to graphic novels
and literary fiction. The collected essays treat our busted culture
as a seismograph that registers the traumas of collapse, and locate
their pop artifacts along a spectrum of ideological fantasies,
social erasures, and profound fears inspired by the Great
Recession. What they discover from these unlikely indicators of the
recession is a mix of regressive, progressive, and bemused texts in
need of critical translation.
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