Global Finance on Screen From Wall Street to Side Street

The first collection exclusively dedicated to a growing body of multi-format and multimedia audiovisual work that this book designates as the finance film Global Finance on Screen From Wall Street to Side Street Constantin Parvulescu, University of Navarra, Spain December 2017: 234x156: 256pp Hb: 978-1-138-04527-9 | £110.00 Pb: 978-1-138-04528-6 | £29.99 eBook: 978-1-315-17203-3 "The essays in this pioneering and timely book make a major contribution to our understanding of finance on film. Acutely aware of how cinema helps to shape and inform popular opinion and understanding, the writers here argue that recent ‘finance films’ offer us a crucial sphere for reflection on the economic state that we’re in and show us routes to forms of critical intervention in the name of economic and social justice. This collection makes essential reading for anyone concerned with understanding how we have come to explain the contemporary financial sector to ourselves." - Dr Alasdair King "This book, the first of its kind, provides a cogent, multifaceted account of the collision of two great dream machines that define our era: film and finance. What I find especially admirable about this collection is that, by bringing film and finance into critical proximity, we come to learn much more about the power and the limits of each. As we struggle today to grasp the nature of global finance before it further destabilizes our precarious world, this book will help us hone our critical imaginations. I highly recommend it not only to scholars but to film-makers, artists and activists seeking new ways to represent the terrible power of money, and offer the alternative visions we so dearly need." - Dr Max Haiven 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. Hb: 978-1-138-04527-9 | £110.00 Pb: 978-1-138-04528-6 | £29.99 For more details, or to request a copy for review, please contact: Jennifer Vennall, Editorial Assistant, [email protected] “The filmic representation of finance is intimately connected to how we understand, analyse and resist financial markets. This wonderful anthology presents a cultural analysis of finance film and documentary from its earliest days to the present, showing our enduring fascination and repulsion of speculation. It offers a detailed reading of the narrative and visual themes of financial representation, and a novel perspective on its politics.” - Professor Marieke de Goede "Global Finance on Screen aligns itself with the struggle for an effective critique of financial capitalism across the social sciences and the humanities. The volume reconstructs and reinterprets these critical social analyses from a wide range of filmic genres and formats, including documentaries, feature and television films and spanning a period of 100 years of filmmaking. The volume is thus powerfully placed as a contribution to economic history from a Cultural Studies perspective, but it articulates also highly nuanced contemporary diagnoses of financialized societies. " - Professor Andreas Langenohl For more information visit: www.routledge.com/9781138045279