Derivative images : financial derivatives in french film, literature and thought /
Watt, Calum,
Derivative images : financial derivatives in french film, literature and thought / Calum Watt. - Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, (c)2022. - 1 online resource (ix, 188 pages) : illustrations - Edinburgh studies in film and intermediality .
Includes bibliographical references.
Introduction: The 2008 Financial Crisis, Film and Literature -- 1. Lordon and the 2008 Crisis -- D'un retournement l'autre -- 'Une image bien choisie qui fait bouillir les sangs': Images and Affects -- Lordon, Images and Committed Art -- The Anarchic Condition -- 2. The Saints of the Crisis: Larnaudie and Stiegler in the Oversight Committee Room -- Les Effondres and the Collapse of Market Ideology -- Greenspan before Congress -- Proletarisation and Transvaluation -- 3. The Derivative in Film and Literary Theory -- Derivatives and Nonknowledge -- Derivative Images -- Is the Psyche a Market? -- Derivative Creativity -- Conclusion -- 4. Trading in Images: The Case of Kerviel -- Screens within Screens -- Kerviel at Societe Generale -- Trading as metier, the Trader as Functionary -- Suicide and Societe Generale -- 5. Derivative Films -- Effacing the Visual Currency: The Fountainhead -- 'L'argent est un bien public': Film Socialisme -- 'The images are there for the taking': Film Catastrophe -- 6. Dreaming Futures -- Argent and Value -- 'Fin de regne': Rever sous le capitalisme -- 'Ca imprime, ca imprime': L'Epoque, Escaparates Conclusion: Ambivalences of the Derivative -- Select Bibliography -- Select Filmography -- Index
A theoretical, interdisciplinary reading of French film and literary texts inspired by the 2008 global financial crisis.
9781474486477
GBC225428 bnb
020490528 Uk
Global Financial Crisis, 2008-2009--In motion pictures.
Global Financial Crisis, 2008-2009--In literature.
Global Financial Crisis, 2008-2009--In popular culture.
Motion pictures--History--France--21st century.
French literature--History and criticism.--21st century
Electronic Books.
PN1993 / .D475 2022
Derivative images : financial derivatives in french film, literature and thought / Calum Watt. - Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, (c)2022. - 1 online resource (ix, 188 pages) : illustrations - Edinburgh studies in film and intermediality .
Includes bibliographical references.
Introduction: The 2008 Financial Crisis, Film and Literature -- 1. Lordon and the 2008 Crisis -- D'un retournement l'autre -- 'Une image bien choisie qui fait bouillir les sangs': Images and Affects -- Lordon, Images and Committed Art -- The Anarchic Condition -- 2. The Saints of the Crisis: Larnaudie and Stiegler in the Oversight Committee Room -- Les Effondres and the Collapse of Market Ideology -- Greenspan before Congress -- Proletarisation and Transvaluation -- 3. The Derivative in Film and Literary Theory -- Derivatives and Nonknowledge -- Derivative Images -- Is the Psyche a Market? -- Derivative Creativity -- Conclusion -- 4. Trading in Images: The Case of Kerviel -- Screens within Screens -- Kerviel at Societe Generale -- Trading as metier, the Trader as Functionary -- Suicide and Societe Generale -- 5. Derivative Films -- Effacing the Visual Currency: The Fountainhead -- 'L'argent est un bien public': Film Socialisme -- 'The images are there for the taking': Film Catastrophe -- 6. Dreaming Futures -- Argent and Value -- 'Fin de regne': Rever sous le capitalisme -- 'Ca imprime, ca imprime': L'Epoque, Escaparates Conclusion: Ambivalences of the Derivative -- Select Bibliography -- Select Filmography -- Index
A theoretical, interdisciplinary reading of French film and literary texts inspired by the 2008 global financial crisis.
9781474486477
GBC225428 bnb
020490528 Uk
Global Financial Crisis, 2008-2009--In motion pictures.
Global Financial Crisis, 2008-2009--In literature.
Global Financial Crisis, 2008-2009--In popular culture.
Motion pictures--History--France--21st century.
French literature--History and criticism.--21st century
Electronic Books.
PN1993 / .D475 2022