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Analyzes six films as allegories of capitalism's precarious state in the early twenty-first century.
At the beginning of the twenty-first century, as the contradictions of capitalism became more apparent than at any other time since the 1920s, numerous films gave allegorical form to the crises of contemporary capitalism. Some films were overtly political in nature, while others refracted the vicissitudes of capital in stories that were not, on the surface, explicitly political. Rumble and Crash examines six particularly rich and thought-provoking films in this vein. These films, Milo Sweedler argues, give narrative and audiovisual form to the increasingly pervasive sense that the economic system we have known and accepted as inevitable and ubiquitous is in fact riddled with self-destructive flaws. Analyzing four movies from before the global financial crisis of 2008 and two that allegorize the financial meltdown itself, Sweedler explores how cinema responded to one of the defining crises of our time. Films examined include Alfonso Cuarón's Children of Men (2006), Stephen Gaghan's Syriana (2005), Fernando Meirelles's The Constant Gardener (2005), Spike Lee's Inside Man (2006), Martin Scorsese's The Wolf of Wall Street (2013), and Woody Allen's Blue Jasmine (2013).
Contents
List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. Exceptions and Rules: States of Emergency in Children of Men
2. Mapping Syriana
3. Corporate Murder in The Constant Gardener
4. Secrets of Primitive Accumulation: Inside Man
5. Fictitious Capital and Narrative Spin in The Wolf of Wall Street
6. The Meltdown and the Bailout without the Recovery: Blue Jasmine
Conclusion: Allegories for the Present
Notes
Bibliography
Index
