Binding: Paperback
Description: Global Finance on Screen is the first collection exclusively dedicated to a growing body of multi - format and multimedia audiovisual work that this book designates as the finance film. Finance film provides critical visualizations of the secretive elitist PR firewalled and gender and race - biased world of finance and its mysterious characters jargon and products. It reconstructs for the screen and for broader audiences finance's logics responsibilities practices and ethos and traces the effects of money markets investment credit debt bubbles and crashes on our well - being desires values and actions. The chapters for this interdisciplinary collection are written by European and North American scholars in film studies anthropology business ethics cultural studies political economy and sociology. They reveal and evaluate the ability of film to document financial cultures; reflect economic cultural and political transformations related to financialization; indicate the alienating and exploitative consequences of the growing role played by financial services in the global economy; mobilize social action against finance's excesses; as well as spread finance and capitalist mythology. The collection offers in - depth investigations of feature films such as Wall Street Freefall Margin Call Justice& Co The Wolf of Wall Street and The Big Short and documentaries such as Inside Job Capitalism: A Love Story and In a Strange Land.
Title: Global Finance On Screen From Wall Street To Side Street
Author(s): Parvulescu Constantin (University Of Navarra Spain)
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
Barcode: 9781138045286
Pages: 240 Pages, 3 Tables, Black And White; 2 Line Drawings, Black And White; 18 Halftones, Black And Whit
Publication Date: 12/27/2017
Category: Political Economy