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A Fish Out Of (Open) Water: A Close Textual-Intertextual Analysis Of The Monterey Bay Aquarium, Danielle Berton
A Fish Out Of (Open) Water: A Close Textual-Intertextual Analysis Of The Monterey Bay Aquarium, Danielle Berton
Communication Studies
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The Big Short, Elizabeth Armon
The Big Short, Elizabeth Armon
Communication Studies
The Big Short (McKay, 2015), adapted from the non-fiction novel The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine by Michael Lewis (2010), follows three separate but parallel stories leading up to the United States housing crisis of 2008. On a macro-level, the film brilliantly depicted the creation, and the ultimate burst, of the credit and housing market bubble. However, on a micro-level the audience is given an opportunity to realize and empathize with the internal struggle that many of the main characters faced as they grappled with the fact that their financial gain from shorting the market came with the caveat …