{"id":1063,"date":"2007-09-17T18:48:04","date_gmt":"2007-09-17T18:48:04","guid":{"rendered":"\/ifbookblog\/?p=1063"},"modified":"2007-09-17T18:48:04","modified_gmt":"2007-09-17T18:48:04","slug":"shock_treatment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/2007\/09\/17\/shock_treatment\/","title":{"rendered":"shock treatment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve never been a fan of book trailers, but this disturbing six-minute agitprop piece promoting Naomi Klein&#8217;s new book <a href=\"http:\/\/www.naomiklein.org\/shock-doctrine\"><i>The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism<\/i><\/a> is genre-transcending. It doesn&#8217;t hurt that Klein teamed up with Mexican director <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Alfonso_Cuar%C3%B3n\">Alfonso Cuar\u00f3n<\/a>, who made what was for my money the best major release picture of last year, &#8220;Children of Men.&#8221; Here, Klein and Cuar\u00f3n are co-writers, Cuar\u00f3n&#8217;s son Jon\u00e1s directs and edits, and Klein provides narration over a melange of chilling footage and animation that sets up her central thesis and metaphor: that free market capitalist reforms are generally advanced, undemocratically, through breaches in the social psyche created by political, economic, environmental or military shocks. It&#8217;s a shocking little video. Make you wanna read the book?<br \/>\n<object width=\"425\" height=\"353\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/kieyjfZDUIc\"><\/param><param name=\"wmode\" value=\"transparent\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/kieyjfZDUIc\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" wmode=\"transparent\" width=\"425\" height=\"353\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve never been a fan of book trailers, but this disturbing six-minute agitprop piece promoting Naomi Klein&#8217;s new book The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism is genre-transcending. It doesn&#8217;t hurt that Klein teamed up with Mexican director Alfonso Cuar\u00f3n, who made what was for my money the best major release picture of last [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[54,192,196,663,749,1253,1956],"tags":[2705],"class_list":["post-1063","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alfonsocuaron","category-books","category-booktrailers","category-film","category-globalization","category-naomiklein","category-video","tag-naomiklein-alfonsocuaron-film-video-booktrailers-books-globalization"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1063","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1063"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1063\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1063"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1063"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1063"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}