International Conference on Eurasian Economies

1-3 July 2014 – Skopje, MACEDONIA

Paper detail

Paper ID : 1055
Status : Paper published
Language : English
Topic : Finance and Financial Crises
Presenter: Asst. Prof. Dr. Ramazan Kurtoğlu
Session : 4A International Relations

Financial-Economic Crisis and Hollywood’s Social Transformation Operations by Horror Movies
Financial-Economic Crisis and Hollywood’s Social Transformation Operations by Horror Movies

• Asst. Prof. Dr. Ramazan Kurtoğlu (Istanbul Aydın University, Türkiye)

Abstract

The fastest change and transition in the human history is neoliberal capitalism’s 30 year global free market politics project which affects every part of the world with 1978 Washington Consensus. According to John Gray who is a well known academician and an intellectual of the new right-wing, neoliberalism is an apocalyptic secular religion which is based on pagan and Christian values and its ultimate goal is post-apocalyptic heaven in the real world. The best marketing expert of this heaven is, Hollywood based American cinema industry in crisis as well as in regular times. In this study, the effects of the horror movies to the subconscious under economical crises period will be analyzed.

JEL codes: A13, D02, G01

Kurtoğlu, Ramazan (2014). "Financial-Economic Crisis and Hollywood’s Social Transformation Operations by Horror Movies" in Proceedings of International Conference of Eurasian Economies 2014, pp.132-137, Skopje, MACEDONIA.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.36880/C05.01055

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Session 4A: International Relations