Utopian discourse and the 2008 global financial crisis: Andrew ross sorkin's and Curtis Hanson's too big to fail, and Antonio Muñoz molina's Todo lo que era sólido

Abstract

Badica traces the utopian impulse in the public discourses surrounding the 2008 financial crises in the United States and in Spain. Her contribution explores the ramifications of the financial market at a historical turning point and the ensuing social movements as performance. She concludes that through similar techniques, Sorkin's Too Big to Fail (2009), the homonymous movie directed by Hanson (2011), and Muñoz Molina's Todo lo que era sólido [All that was solid] (2013) succeed in clearly communicating the main issues of the complex financial crisis without questioning the individual and/or familial utopian impulse for economic self-improvement.