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

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE Arts 2022
• VerfasserIn: Watt, Calum,
• Place / Publishing House: Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2022]; ©2022
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Series: Edinburgh Studies in Film and Intermediality : ESFI
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (200 p.) :; 24 B/W illustrations

A theoretical, interdisciplinary reading of French film and literary texts inspired by the 2008 global financial crisisDraws on ideas by Peter Szendy, Yves Citton, Jonathan Beller and Christophe Hanna to theorise the derivative as a metaphor for thinking about the nature of contemporary audio-visual imagesCuts across medial boundaries to analyse works by Sophie Bruneau, Paul Grivas, Jérôme Kerviel, Mathieu Larnaudie, Frédéric Lordon, Anna Malagrida, Société Réaliste and othersShows how such French-language writers, artists and filmmakers engage with the financial mechanisms at the heart of the 2008 crash in order to put them into imagesFocused 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.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Figures -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction: The 2008 Financial Crisis, Film and Literature -- 1. 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 -- 6. Dreaming Futures -- Conclusion: Ambivalences of the Derivative -- Select Bibliography -- Select Filmography -- Index