LEADER 04217oam 22005415 450 001 9910741152803321 005 20231207215704.0 010 $a3-030-74136-2 024 7 $a10.1007/978-3-030-74136-5 035 $a(CKB)4100000012037228 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC6735589 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL6735589 035 $a(OCoLC)1287131686 035 $a(DE-He213)978-3-030-74136-5 035 $a(EXLCZ)994100000012037228 100 $a20210927d2021 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn#---||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 12$aA cinema of hopelessness $ethe rhetoric of rage in 21st Century popular culture /$fKendall R. Phillips 205 $a1st ed. 2021. 210 1$aCham :$cSpringer International Publishing :$cImprint: Palgrave Macmillan,$d2021. 215 $a1 online resource $ccolour illustrations 225 1 $aRhetoric, Politics and Society,$x2947-5155 311 08$aPrint version: 3030741354 9783030741358 (OCoLC)1243350637 311 08$a3-030-74135-4 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aChapter 1. Introduction: Echoes of Refusal -- Chapter 2. A Certain Tendency in Post-Occupy Cinema: The Cabin in the Woods, The Purge, and Snowpiercer -- Chapter 3. ?You Get What You Fucking Deserve?: Joker and the Fantasies of Refusal -- Chapter 4. Of Gods and Monsters: Grief, Betrayal, and Failure in the Marvel Cinematic Universe. Chapter 5. Conclusion: Endgame?./. 330 $aPhillips offers an incisive, subtle, and compelling analysis of the cinematic present that also poses difficult questions for the political present. A Cinema of Hopelessness has the courage to deeply examine contemporary popular cinema in a political context. While pointing to a generalized affective atmosphere of hopelessness, this book does not succumb to negativity. On the contrary, out of hopelessness, Phillips glimpses the contours of hope, a way out, a future that contemporary cinema gives us the possibility of imagining. - Dr Richard Rushton, Lancaster University This book explores the circulation of anger and hostility in contemporary American culture with particular attention to the fantasy of refusal, a dream of rejecting all the structures of the contemporary political and economic system. Framing the question of public sentiment through the lens of rhetorical studies, this book traces the circulation of symbols that craft public feelings in contemporary popular cinema. Analyzing popular twenty-first century films as invitations to a particular way of feeling, the book delves into the way popular sentiments are circulated and intensified. The book examines dystopian films (The Purge, The Cabin in the Woods), science fiction (Snowpiercer), and superhero narratives (the Marvel Cinematic Universe and Joker). Across these varied films, an affective economy that emphasizes grief, betrayal, refusal, and an underlying rage at the seeming hopelessness of contemporary culture is uncovered. These examinations are framed in terms of ongoing political protests ranging from Occupy Wall Street, the Tea Party, Black Lives Matter, and the 6th January 2021 invasion of the US Capitol Building. Kendall R. Phillips is Professor of Communication and Rhetorical Studies at Syracuse University, USA. His publications include Projected Fears: Horror Films and American Culture (2005), Dark Directions: Romero, Craven, Carpenter and the Modern Horror Film (2012) and A Place of Darkness: The Rhetoric of Horror in Early American Cinema (2018). 410 0$aRhetoric, Politics and Society,$x2947-5155 606 $aMotion pictures$zUnited States 606 $aGovernment, Resistance to$xIn motion pictures 606 $aPolitics in motion pictures 615 0$aMotion pictures 615 0$aGovernment, Resistance to$xIn motion pictures. 615 0$aPolitics in motion pictures. 676 $a791.430973 676 $a791.436581 700 $aPhillips$b Kendall R.$0848074 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910741152803321 996 $aA cinema of hopelessness$93554533 997 $aUNINA