Screening the Crisis: US Cinema and Social Change in the Wake of the 2008 Crash

Half Title\nTitle Page\nCopyright Page\nContents\nForewordCrisis and Critique\nAcknowledgments\nIntroduction: Cinema and the Age of Crisis\nPart I: US Cinema in the Age of Crisis\n	Chapter 1: It’s Always Been Crisis: Hollywood History\n	Chapter 2: Independent Films in an Age of Crisis: Illuminating the Lives of Outsiders in Neoliberal America\nPart II: Labor Crisis and the Neoliberal Subject\n	Chapter 3: Limitless?: Neoliberal Femininity in the Post-recessionary Chick Flick\n	Chapter 4: Screening Recessions through a Gendered Lens: Nostalgic and Critical Revisions of the Past from the Post-2008 Crisis Perspective\n	Chapter 5: Screening Neoliberalism in Nightcrawler and The Wolf of Wall Street\nPart III: Technology and the State of Surveillance\n	Chapter 6: The Shock Doctrines of The Social Network: Zuckerberg, Trump, and Surveillance Capitalism in Big-tech Cinema\n	Chapter 7: “I Figured You Were Probably Watching Us”: Performing Gender and Citizen Surveillance in Ex Machina\nPart IV: The Housing Crisis and the Home Question\n	Chapter 8: Stand Your Ground: Neoliberal Horrors, The Purge Franchise, and the Allegorical Moment of US Trauma\n	Chapter 9: Horror, Race, and the Economics of Interiority: Homeownership in the Blumhouse Universe\n	Chapter 10: Resignifying the National Home: Gendered Domopolitics and Neoliberal Geographies of Exclusion in Debra Granik’s Cinema\nPart V: Politics, Affect, and the Crisis of Public Values\n	Chapter 11: White Identity, Great Replacement Politics, and Auteurism: The Cinema of S. Craig Zahler\n	Chapter 12: A Crisis of Confidence: Fracture and Malaise in the US Polity in Dragged Across Concrete\n	Chapter 13: “I Guess It Comes from Being Poor”: Inequality, Affect, and Point of View in The Florida Project\nPart VI: Ecological Crisis and Visions of the Future\n	Chapter 14: Who the Earth Is For: Reframing Rural Landscapes as Collective Polities in Leave No Trace and Beasts of the Southern Wild\n	Chapter 15: Turning Over a New Leaf: Exploring Human-Tree Relationships in The Lorax and Avatar\n	Chapter 16: “No One to Call Around Here. These Boys Is on Their Own”: The Postindustrial Frontier in Hell or High Water and the Western as a Landscape of the Crisis\n	Chapter 17: Bad Hombres at the Border: Masculinity and Mexico in Rambo: Last Blood\n	Chapter 18: We’re No Longer Here: Ya no estoy aquí as an Example of Neoliberalism and Economic Crisis in the US-Mexico Borderlands\nContributors\nIndex