274 Pages
by
Routledge
274 Pages
by
Routledge
274 Pages
by
Routledge
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After the First World War, the effects of financial crisis could be felt in all corners of the newly formed Weimar Republic. The newly interconnected world economy was barely understood and yet it was increasingly made visible in the films of the time. The complexities of this system were reflected on screen to both the everyday spectator as well as a new class of financial workers who looked to... Read more
Introduction, Chapter 1: The Stock Exchange as a Space of Modernity and Labour of Representation, The Stock Exchange as a Space of Modernity, The Stock Exchange as a Labour of Representation, Chapter 2: Dr. Mabuse and His Doubles, Dr. Mabuse the Speculator, Dr. Mabuse and the Weimar Financial Imaginary, Chapter 3: Women and Financial Capital in Weimar Cinema, The New Woman as Speculator, Women as a Medium of Exchange, Chapter 4: Finance, Liquidity and the Crisis of Masculinity in Weimar Cinema, The Threat of Dissolution, Reactionary Modernism and Finance Capital, Chapter 5: The Aggregate Image and the World Economy, Macroeconomic Visions, Epilogue, Fungibility and Authenticity, Appendix, Bibliography
Biography
Owen Lyons is an Assistant Professor at the School of Image Arts at Toronto Metropolitan University and holds a PhD in Cultural Mediations from Carleton University. His research addresses Weimar Cinema as well as the visual culture of twenty-first century financial markets.
