Global Finance on Screen

Constantin Parvulescu is research fellow at the Institute for Culture and Society, University of Navarra, Spain and guest lecturer at the University of St Gallen, Switzerland. He is author of Orphans of the East: Postwar Eastern European Cinema and the Revolutionary Subject (2015) and the co-editor of A Companion to the Historical Film (2013).

List of Figures List of Tables List of Boxes Introduction, Constantin Parvulescu Section 1: Telling Finance Stories Chapter 1: Graham Murdock, Narrating Finance Capital: Explorations in Speculation, Crisis and Austerity Chapter 2: Robert Burgoyne, Forms of Time and the Chronotope in the Wall Street Film Chapter 3: Pablo Echart and Pablo Castrillo, Financial Darwinism in Recent American Feature Films Chapter 4: Jens Maesse, "Financial Wisdom" as Discursive Position: How Financial Expertise Is Constructed in Documentary Film Section 2: Critical Interventions Chapter 5: Karen Ho, Finance, Crisis, and Hollywood: Critique and Recuperation of Wall Street in Films about the Great RecessionChapter 6: Constantin Parvulescu, Boiler Room and the Financialization of the American Economy Chapter 7: Scott Loren, Mediating the Crisis: Revisionary Economics in Oliver Stone’s Wall Street Films Chapter 8: Ignacio Ferrero, Marta Rocchi and Robert E. McNulty, No Ethics, No Heroes: How Immorality Flattens Wall Street Characters Section 3: Screening Crisis and Recessions Chapter 9: Daniel Marcus, Documentary Treatments and Cultural Hierarchies: The 2008 Financial Crash in American Documentaries Chapter 10: Elena Oliete-Aldea, Global Financial Crisis in Local Filmic Scenarios: Transnational Cinema of the Great Recession Chapter 11: Araceli Rodríguez Mateos, Precarity and Vulnerability: Documentaries on the Crisis in Spain PostScript: Notes of a Filmmaker Michael Chanan, How to Make a Film about Money and Debt without Any Money and without Falling into Debt AcknowledgementsList of Contributors