Magical Thinking, Fantastic Film, and the Illusions of Neoliberalism

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by Michael J. Blouin

Type: Essays
Subject: Genre > Fantasy
Keywords: magic, fantasy, politics
Publishing date: 2016
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Language: English

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Hardcover • 257 pages
6 x 8 ¼ inches (15 x 21 cm)

ISBN

978-1-137-53195-7

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Book Presentation:
This book analyzes how contemporary popular films with fantastic themes, including Candyman, Frozen, The Cabin in the Woods, and The Incredible Burt Wonderstone, cultivate neoliberal subjectivities. These films promise dramatic change, but they too often deliver more of the same. Although proponents maintain the illusion that the militant enforcement of freemarket economics will resolve racism, climate change, and imperialism, their magical thinking actually fuels the crises. Magical Thinking, Fantastic Film, and the Illusions of Neoliberalism explores the ways in which the visual economies of Hollywood fantasy compliment this particular political economy.

About the Author:
Michael J. Blouin is Assistant Professor at Milligan College, USA. He maintains research interests in film studies, critical theory, transnationalism, and popular culture. Blouin’s publications include Japan and the Cosmopolitan Gothic: Specters of Modernity, as well as articles in academic journals including The Journal of American Studies and Extrapolation.

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