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Possibilities in a Neoliberal World: Masculine Authority and Love in Affliction

Possibilities in a Neoliberal World: Masculine Authority and Love in Affliction Possibilities in a Neoliberal World: Masculine Authority and Love in Affliction stacy denton the critique of neoliber alism that of personal aptitude rather than a systemic has been taken up in the 2000s, at least by outcome. For those people who appear as prominent scholars in academia, highlights the failures within such a neoliberal system, such impact of changing socioeconomic structures as the male working­ class rural characters in on people and communities. David Harvey Affliction, the inability to succeed economically defines neoliberalism as “a theory of political becomes internalized as a personal failure and economic practices that proposes that human can emerge in destructive ways in relationships well­ being can best be advanced by liberating within their community. Thus, it is easy to see individual entrepreneurial freedoms and skills how the implied and obvious violence of the within an institutional framework characterized film’s main character, Wade Whitehouse (Nick by strong private property rights, free markets, Nolte), is an extension of the rage and despera­ and free trade,” leading to the colonization of tion experienced within a world that largely people and places so that the few can perpetu­ dismisses his validity. And although the film ally accumulate at http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Journal of Film and Video University of Illinois Press

Possibilities in a Neoliberal World: Masculine Authority and Love in Affliction

Denton, Stacy
Journal of Film and Video , Volume 69 (3) – Aug 30, 2017
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Possibilities in a Neoliberal World: Masculine Authority and Love in Affliction stacy denton the critique of neoliber alism that of personal aptitude rather than a systemic has been taken up in the 2000s, at least by outcome. For those people who appear as prominent scholars in academia, highlights the failures within such a neoliberal system, such impact of changing socioeconomic structures as the male working­ class rural characters in on people and communities. David Harvey Affliction, the inability to succeed economically defines neoliberalism as “a theory of political becomes internalized as a personal failure and economic practices that proposes that human can emerge in destructive ways in relationships well­ being can best be advanced by liberating within their community. Thus, it is easy to see individual entrepreneurial freedoms and skills how the implied and obvious violence of the within an institutional framework characterized film’s main character, Wade Whitehouse (Nick by strong private property rights, free markets, Nolte), is an extension of the rage and despera­ and free trade,” leading to the colonization of tion experienced within a world that largely people and places so that the few can perpetu­ dismisses his validity. And although the film ally accumulate at

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Published: Aug 30, 2017

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