Ghostly trajectories: neorealism and urban movement in Ramin Bahrani's 'American Dream' trilogy

摘要

Bahrani's American Dream trilogy counters Hollywood's rags-to-riches "dream" narratives by enacting the quotidian rhythms and routines of its protagonists' endless labor cycles. Yet in his attention to characters' ways of moving through and physically occupying urban spaces of commerce, Bahrani reveals the ways in which they both subvert and manifest the exclusions and failures of late capitalism.