The Financial Image: Finance, Philosophy, and Contemporary Film draws on a broad range of narrative feature films, documentaries, and moving image installations in the US, Europe, and Asia. Using frameworks from contemporary philosophy and critical finance studies, the book explores how contemporary cinema has registered recent financial and economic issues. The book focuses on how filmmakers have found formal means to explore, celebrate, and critique the increasingly important role that the financial sector plays in shaping global economic, political, ethical, and social life.

Contributes to the interdisciplinary study of the cultural politics of finance and the economic humanities Examines how finance is addressed in contemporary film and visual culture Considers ethical, performative, and spatial influences of finance on culture

Autorentext

Alasdair King is Reader in Film in the School of Languages, Linguistics, and Film at Queen Mary University of London, UK. He is the author of Hans Magnus Enzensberger: Writing, Media, Democracy (2007).

Klappentext

The Financial Image: Finance, Philosophy, and Contemporary Film draws on a broad range of narrative feature films, documentaries, and moving image installations in the US, Europe, and Asia. Using frameworks from contemporary philosophy and critical finance studies, the book explores how contemporary cinema has registered recent financial and economic issues. The book focuses on how filmmakers have found formal means to explore, celebrate, and critique the increasingly important role that the financial sector plays in shaping global economic, political, ethical, and social life.

Inhalt

1. Introduction.- 2. The Financial Gaze.- 3. Film and Financial Ethics.- 4. Film and Financial Time.- 5. Film and 6. Financial Space.- 7. Film and Financial Performance.- 8. Conclusion.