A Certain Tendency in Post-Occupy Cinema: The Cabin in the Woods, The Purge, and Snowpiercer

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Abstract

This chapter explores the ways that affective energies within the culture are taken up and circulated through the affective structures within popular films. Focusing on the Occupy Wall Street Movement, this essay traces the way the affective energies associated with the movement are present in three films released in the years following the event: The Cabin in the Woods; The Purge; and Snowpiercer. Each of the three films invites audiences to share in an affective orientation toward the broader systems of life that resemble the feelings surrounding the Occupy Movement.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Title of host publicationRhetoric, Politics and Society
PublisherPalgrave Macmillan
Pages15-40
Number of pages26
DOIs
StatePublished - 2021

Publication series

NameRhetoric, Politics and Society
VolumePart F765
ISSN (Print)2947-5147
ISSN (Electronic)2947-5155

Keywords

  • Affective economy
  • Horror
  • Occupy Wall Street
  • Orientation
  • Refusal

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Linguistics and Language
  • Communication
  • Cultural Studies
  • Political Science and International Relations

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