‘The Shock Doctrine’ as video

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Naomi Klein’s newest book, ‘The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism,’ has received lots of attention, including a nomination for this year’s L.A. Times Book Prize for current interest. Check out this video made (by Alfonso Cuarón) for ‘The Shock Doctrine.’

In the six months that it has been on the Internet, Cuarón’s video has made the rounds, garnering nearly 1,200 comments on YouTube.

Klein explains that she sent her finished manuscript to Cuarón ‘because I adore his films’ and that the future world he created in his film ‘Children of Men’ captured the present-day she was seeing in disaster zones in New Orleans and the rest of the Gulf Coast after hurricanes Katrina and Rita.

‘I was hoping he would send me a quote for the book jacket and instead he pulled together this amazing team of artists -- including Jonás Cuarón who directed and edited -- to make ‘The Shock Doctrine’ short film. It was one of those blessed projects where everything felt fated.’

Carolyn Kellogg