Ferris Bueller: A Marxist Analysis

Flamenco
Published on Sep 10, 2023
In this video essay, I apply aspects of Marxist theory to Ferris Bueller's Day Off, illuminating the ways in which the movie reflects 1980s American economic theory. By setting the movie against its contextual real-world backdrop of Reagan's "trickle-down" theory of economics, deeper connotations of the characters' actions on their "day off" become clear.

Sources:

"The Top 1 Percent’s Share of Income from Wealth Has Been Rising for Decades" by Josh Bivens, Economic Policy Institute
https://www.epi.org/publication/top-1-percents-share-income-wealth-rising/

"The Economic Consequences of Major Tax Cuts for the Rich" by David Hope and Julian Limberg, The London School of Economics and Political Science International Inequalities Institute
http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/107919/1/Hope_economic_consequences_of_major_tax_cuts_published.pdf