Derivative Images: Financial Derivatives in French Film, Literature and Thought
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 Effondrés (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.

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Derivative Images: Financial Derivatives in French Film, Literature and Thought
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 Effondrés (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.

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Derivative Images: Financial Derivatives in French Film, Literature and Thought

Derivative Images: Financial Derivatives in French Film, Literature and Thought

by Calum Watt
Derivative Images: Financial Derivatives in French Film, Literature and Thought

Derivative Images: Financial Derivatives in French Film, Literature and Thought

by Calum Watt

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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 Effondrés (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.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781474486460
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Publication date: 02/12/2024
Series: Edinburgh Studies in Film and Intermediality
Pages: 200
Product dimensions: 6.14(w) x 9.21(h) x 0.00(d)

About the Author

Calum Watt is a European Project Officer at Universityé Paris Nanterre and an Associate Researcher at the Institut de recherche sur le cinéma et l’audiovisuel (IRCAV) at the Sorbonne Nouvelle. At IRCAV he was a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellow from 2016 to 2018, researching French culture and the 2008 financial crisis.

Table of 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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