Derivative Images: Financial Derivatives in French Film, Literature and Thought (Edinburgh Studies in Film and Intermediality)

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. List of Figures Acknowledgements Introduction: The 2008 Financial Crisis, Film and Literature 1. Lordon and the 2008 Crisis D’un retournement l’autre ‘Une image bien choisie qui fait bouillir les sangs’: Images and Affects Lordon, Images and Committed Art The Anarchic Condition 2. The Saints of the Crisis: Larnaudie and Stiegler in the Oversight Committee Room Les Effondres and the Collapse of Market Ideology Greenspan before Congress Proletarisation and Transvaluation 3. The Derivative in Film and Literary Theory Derivatives and Nonknowledge Derivative Images Is the Psyche a Market? Derivative Creativity Conclusion 4. Trading in Images: The Case of Kerviel Screens within Screens Kerviel at Societe Generale Trading as metier, the Trader as Functionary Suicide and Societe Generale 5. Derivative Films Effacing the Visual Currency: The Fountainhead ‘L’argent est un bien public’: Film Socialisme ‘The images are there for the taking’: Film Catastrophe 6. Dreaming Futures Argent and Value ‘Fin de regne’: Rever sous le capitalisme ‘Ca imprime, ca imprime’: L’Epoque, Escaparates Conclusion: Ambivalences of the Derivative Select Bibliography Select Filmography Index 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.0Drawing 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 A theoretical, interdisciplinary reading of French film and literary texts inspired by the 2008 global financial crisis.