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This Element examines recent documentaries depicting marginalized youth who are ostensibly redeemed by their encounters with Shakespeare. These films emerge in response to four historical and discursive developments: the rise of reality television and its emphasis on the emotional transformation of the private individual; the concomitant rise of neoliberalism and emotional capitalism, which employ therapeutic discourses to individualize social inequality; the privatization of public education and the rise of so-called “no-excuses” or “new paternalist” charter schools; and the emergence of new modes of address infusing evangelical conversion narratives with a therapeutic self-help ethos.

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'... offers fascinating glimpses into the uses and abuses of the arts in a capitalist 'self-help' culture.' Molly Clark, Times Literary Supplement 'The book offers fascinating glimpses into the uses and abuses of the arts in a capitalist 'self-help' culture'. Molly Clark, The Times Literary Supplement

'The book offers fascinating glimpses into the uses and abuses of the arts in a capitalist 'self-help' culture'. Molly Clark, The Times Literary Supplement '... offers fascinating glimpses into the uses and abuses of the arts in a capitalist 'self-help' culture.' Molly Clark, Times Literary Supplement

'The book offers fascinating glimpses into the uses and abuses of the arts in a capitalist 'self-help' culture'. Molly Clark, The Times Literary Supplement '… slim and sharp-edged … At under 100 pages, its short format is unusual and welcome.' William N. West, SEL Studies in English Literature 1500–1900

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