Milo Sweedler - Allegories of the End of Capitalism: Six Films on the Revolutions of Our Times

Many people contributed to the development of this book. Abderrahman Beggar, Hugo De Marinis, Patricia Elliot, Colman Hogan, Marta Marn-Dmine, Sharon Marquart, Charles Nuckolls, Herbert Pimlott, Marc Olivier Reid, Margaret Toye, Christopher Treadwell, Kathleen Vanesian, and Heidi Yeandle offered encouragement, constructive criticism, and helpful suggestions. Above all, I wish to thank my mother, Marilyn Zeitlin, for the innumerable corrections and suggestions for improvements she made in her multiple readings of the manuscript.

An early version of chapter 1 appeared under the title The End of the World of the End: Lars von Triers Melancholia and Political Theory in A Critical Approach to the Apocalypse, edited by Alexandra Simon-Lpez and Heidi Yeandle (Oxford: Inter-Disciplinary Press, 2013). I am grateful to the publisher for permission to reprint the piece in revised form.

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