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Fredric Jameson and The Wolf of Wall Street

Clint Burnham

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Description for Fredric Jameson and The Wolf of Wall Street Paperback. Series: Film Theory in Practice. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: APFA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 129 x 271 x 19. Weight in Grams: 218.
The Film Theory in Practice series fills a gaping hole in the world of film theory. By marrying the explanation of a film theory with the interpretation of a film, the volumes provide discrete examples of how film theory can serve as the basis for textual analysis. Fredric Jameson and The Wolf of Wall Street offers a concise introduction to Jameson in jargon-free language and shows how his Marxist theories can be deployed to interpret Martin Scorsese's critically acclaimed 2013 film The Wolf of Wall Street. Beginning with a detailed account of Jameson's extensive ... Read more

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Publisher

Bloomsbury Publishing Plc

Format

Paperback

Publication date

2016

Series

Film Theory in Practice

Condition

New

Number of Pages

192

Place of Publication

New York, United States

ISBN

9781501308345

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V9781501308345

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About Clint Burnham

Clint Burnham teaches theory and popular culture at Simon Fraser University, Canada. His books include The Jamesonian Unconscious: The Aesthetics of Marxist Theory (1995), The Only Poetry that Matters: Reading the Kootenay School of Writing (2011), and the collections Digital Natives (2011, co-ed. with Lorna Brown) and From Text to Txting: New Media in the Classroom (2012, co-ed. with Paul ... Read more

Reviews for Fredric Jameson and The Wolf of Wall Street

This breathless non-stop reading of the equally headlong Scorsese film not only uses my own work in an original and creative way (Burnham is one of my best interpreters), it has much that is new and stimulating to say about finance capital itself, and in particular about the status or this apparent mutation or globalized Aufhebung of the classical capitalism ... Read moreanalyzed by Marx. Is it unproductive, immaterial, postindustrial, or even no longer capitalistic? Burnham's shrewd reading of this particular representation leads me to what is for me a satisfying and illuminating conclusion: namely that finance capital is an allegory of real capitalism! This is a lively and stimulating book!
Fredric Jameson, Knut Schmidt Nielsen Professor of Comparative Literature, Duke University, USA
Nothing fugazi here. Clint Burnham has assembled an engaging tour of the critical theories of Fredric Jameson, resulting in perhaps the best introduction to this major figure that has ever been written. He deftly demonstrates the analytical powers of Jameson's concepts by opening up the ideological complexities of Martin Scorsese's The Wolf of Wall Street. By the end of the book, we see this entertaining and maddening movie as a shimmering product of our stage of capitalism, and we grasp completely the profound importance of confronting the political unconscious of our most visible cultural works. Highly recommended for scholars and students of contemporary culture who seek to understand the ideological atmosphere of our time and Scorsese's version of the strange rituals of Wall Street exuberance.
Charles Acland, Professor, Concordia University, Montreal, Canada
Clint Burnham provides a patient and ambitious introduction to our greatest cultural thinker, Fredric Jameson, whose intellectual virtuosity has often eluded such clear engagement. This is an act of real generosity. At the same time, Burnham produces a bravura reading of Wolf of Wall Street and of Martin Scorsese, who may be the Jameson of US filmmaking. But the great achievement here is not simply to do these things together, but do them at once. It is a show-don't-tell triumph of dialectical thought that illuminates the real object of study here: not Jameson, not Scorsese, but the dialectic itself.
Joshua Clover, Professor of English and Comparative Literature, University of California Davis, US
A commendably accessible and insightful introduction to Jameson's film theory and cultural critique, Burnham's book doubles as a witty and perceptive contribution to contemporary debates on the representability of class and financialized capitalism in a period of crisis.
Alberto Toscano, co-author of Cartographies of the Absolute and Reader in Critical Theory, Goldsmiths, University of London, UK
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