Barbenheimer Syndrome The Creation of Cultural Spectacle at the Box Office

This edited volume engages with Barbie (Greta Gerwig, 2023) and Oppenheimer (Christopher Nolan, 2023) through the lens of the “Barbenheimer” fad, a phenomenon that celebrated the counterprogramming of these two divergent films. Through a variety of approaches and perspectives, Barbenheimer Syndrome reveals why these movies struck such a cultural nerve.