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

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...

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