Title Derivative images : financial derivatives in french film, literature and thought / Calum Watt

Published Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2022] ©2022

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Description 1 online resource (ix, 188 pages) : illustrations Series Edinburgh studies in film and intermediality Edinburgh studies in film and intermediality. Contents 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 Summary A theoretical, interdisciplinary reading of French film and literary texts inspired by the 2008 global financial crisis Bibliography Includes bibliographical references Notes Print version record Subject 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 -- France -- History -- 21st century French literature -- 21st century -- History and criticism PERFORMING ARTS -- Film & Video -- Direction & Production. French literature Motion pictures France Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc. History Form Electronic book ISBN 9781474486477 1474486479 9781474486484 1474486487

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