Great Recession in Fiction Film and Television

The Great Recession in Fiction Film and Television: Twenty-first-Century Bust Culture examines pop artifacts not typically included in discussions of the financial meltdown; the collected essays treat our busted culture as a seismograph that registers the traumas of collapse. In accessible intellectually rigorous prose each essay locates their subject – from disaster films to graphic novels – along a spectrum of ideological fantasies social erasures and profound anxieties inspired by the Great Recession.