Rumble and Crash - Crises of Capitalism in Contemporary Film

Analyzes six films as allegories of capitalism's precarious state in the early twenty-first century.

About the author

Milo Sweedler is Associate Professor of French, Cultural Analysis, and Social Theory at Wilfrid Laurier University in Canada. He is the author of The Dismembered Community: Bataille, Blanchot, Leiris, and the Remains of Laure.

Product details

• Authors: Milo Sweedler
• Publisher: State University of New York Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.01.2020
• EAN: 9781438472805
• ISBN: 978-1-4384-7280-5
• No. of pages: 222
• Series: Suny Series, Horizons of Cinem; SUNY series, Horizons of Cinema
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Photography, film, video, TV; Films, cinema, PERFORMING ARTS / Film / History & Criticism, PERFORMING ARTS / Film / General, Film Theory & Criticism, Film history, theory or criticism