Neoliberal Nonfictions: The Documentary Aesthetic from Joan Didion to Jay-Z

With the ascendancy of neoliberalism in American culture beginning in the 1960s, the political structures governing private lives became more opaque and obscure. Neoliberal Nonfictions argues that a new style of documentary art emerged to articulate the fissures between individual experience and reality in the era of finance capitalism.

In this wide—ranging study, Daniel Worden touches on issues ranging from urban poverty and criminal justice to environmental collapse and international poli...