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Narrating the Global Financial Crisis: Urban Imaginaries and the Politics of Myth
Miriam Meissner
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Description for Narrating the Global Financial Crisis: Urban Imaginaries and the Politics of Myth
Hardback. Series: Palgrave Studies in Globalization, Culture and Society. Num Pages: 252 pages, 34 colour illustrations, 34 colour tables, biography. BIC Classification: AJ; APFR; F; KFF; KNTJ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 210 x 148. .
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Springer International Publishing AG
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Series
Palgrave Studies in Globalization, Culture and Society
Condition
New
Weight
28g
Number of Pages
252
Place of Publication
Cham, Switzerland
ISBN
9783319454108
SKU
V9783319454108
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About Miriam Meissner
Miriam Meissner is Lecturer in Media and Cultural Studies in the Department of Sociology at Lancaster University, UK. Miriam's research is about cities and urban cultures, visual culture and critical theory - with a particular focus on financial and ecological crisis discourses and practices.
Reviews for Narrating the Global Financial Crisis: Urban Imaginaries and the Politics of Myth
Narrating the Global Financial Crisis provides a searching, theoretically sophisticated critical account of different discursive constructions of the global financial crisis ... in media and popular culture. ... Narrating the Global Financial Crisis is beautifully bound, formatted and illustrated, in full colour. In providing vivid analyses of diverse cultural representations of finance, informed by cultural and urban theory, it is ... Read more