¿This book analyzes how contemporary popular films with fantastic themes including Candyman
Frozen The Cabin in the Woods and The Incredible Burt Wonderstone cultivate neoliberal
subjectivities. These films promise dramatic change but they too often deliver more of the
same. Although proponents maintain the illusion that the militant enforcement of freemarket
economics will resolve racism climate change and imperialism their magical thinking actually
fuels the crises. Magical Thinking Fantastic Film and the Illusions of Neoliberalism explores
the ways in which the visual economies of Hollywood fantasy compliment this particular
political economy.
