Derivative Images : Financial Derivatives in French Film, Literature and Thought (Edinburgh Studies in Film and Intermediality)

Watt, Calum

Edinburgh University Press（2024/02発売）

Edinburgh University Press（2024/02発売）

• 製本 Paperback:紙装版/ペーパーバック版／ページ数 200 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9781474486460
• DDC分類 791.4365530944

Full Description

Focused on French cultural responses to the 2008 global financial crisis in cinema, literature and theory, Derivative Images offers detailed analyses of post-2008 French-language works, including Les Effondres (2010), Le Grand Retournement (2013) and L'Outsider (2016), to show how they appropriate and reconfigure notions at the heart of the crisis, such as derivatives, financial trading and markets.Drawing on ideas from thinkers such as Jonathan Beller, Yves Citton and Peter Szendy, this book shows how derivatives can be taken as a conceptual resource for thinking about creative practice and the circulation of audio-visual images today.

Contents

Acknowledgements

Introduction: The 2008 Financial Crisis, Film and Literature

1. D'un retournement l'autre: Lordon and the 2008 Crisis

2. The Saints of the Crisis: Larnaudie and Stiegler in the Oversight Committee Room

3. The Derivative in Film and Literary Theory

4. Trading in Images: The Case of Kerviel

5. Derivative Films: The Fountainhead, Film Socialisme, Film Catastrophe

6. Dreaming Futures: Argent, Rêver sous le capitalisme, L'Époque, Escaparates

Conclusion: Ambivalences of the Derivative

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