The Post-Crash Decade of American Cinema: Wall Street, the "mancession, " and the Political Construction of Crisis, Kowal Ewa

Timely, interdisciplinary and in-depth, this analysis combines literary and cultural studies, as well as feminist criticism, gender studies and masculinities studies with research on the latest history of political economy to interrelate such diverse phenomena as capitalism, Wall Street culture, the Mancession myth, Donald Trump, pornography, patriarchy, neoliberalism, precarity, postfeminism, the fourth wave of feminism, the #MeToo movement, 9/11, home, housing studies, positive psychology, and happiness studies. Ultimately, the book problematises the very concept of crisis, elucidating it as a powerful political construct.