Constantin Parvulescu, researcher of the project 'Emotional culture and identity(CEMID) of the Institute for Culture and Society (ICS) of the University of Navarra, has coordinated the book Global Finance on Screen, published by the international academic publishing house Routledge.

It has counted on the partnership of European and North American experts from areas such as audiovisual programs of study , anthropology, business ethics, cultural programs of study , political Economics and sociology.

The chapters address issues such as the ability of film to document financial cultures; reflect economic, political and cultural transformations related to financialization; indicate the alienating and exploitative consequences of the growing role of financial services in the global Economics ; mobilize social action against the excesses of the financial world, as well as disseminate financial and capitalist mythology.

They also offer in-depth investigations of films such as Wall Street, Margin Call, The Wolf of Wall Street and The Big Bet, and documentaries such as Inside Job, Capitalism: A Love Story and In a Strange Land.

The book collects papers presented at the framework of the congress 'Global Finance and the Moving Image', organized in 2016 by CEMID with the partnership of the School of Communication of the University of Navarra, Social Trends Institute and the University St. Gallen (Switzerland), and funded by Zurich Seguros, Obra Social 'La Caixa' and Fundación Bancaria Caja Navarra.

The meeting analyzed the representation of the financial industry in the audiovisual media, addressing aspects such as the economic crisis, business ethics, the attitudes of bankers and stockbrokers... It offered aninterdisciplinary reflection on the value, relevance and social impact of audiovisual materials - documentary films, television journalism from research and digital material - that explore the industry's operations and their social and political impact.

Chapters and authors

Introduction to position by Constantin Parvulescu

Section 1: Telling Finance Stories

- Graham Murdock, Screening Finance Capital: Explorations in Speculation, Crisis and Austerity.
- Robert Burgoyne, Forms of Time and the Chronotope in the Wall Street Film
- Pablo Echart and Pablo Castrillo, Financial Darwinism in Recent American Feature Films -Jens Maesse, "Financial Wisdom" as Discursive Position: How Financial Expertise Is Constructed in Documentary Film

 

Section 2: Critical Interventions

-Karen Ho, Finance, Crisis, and Hollywood: Critique and Recuperation of Wall Street in Films about the Great Recession
-Constantin Parvulescu, 'Boiler Room' and the Financialization of the American Economy -Scott Loren, Mediating the Crisis: Revisionary Economics in Oliver Stone's Wall Street Films
-Ignacio Ferrero, Marta Rocchi and Robert E. McNulty, No Ethics, No Heroes: How Immorality Flattens Wall Street Characters

 

Section 3: Screening Crisis and Recessions

-Daniel Marcus, Documentary Treatments and Cultural Hierarchies: The 2008 Financial Crash in American Documentaries
-Elena Oliete-Aldea, Global Financial Crisis in Local Filmic Scenarios: Transnational Cinema of the Great Recession
-Araceli Rodríguez Mateos, Precarity and Vulnerability: Documentaries on the Crisis in Spain

 

Notes of a Filmmaker

-Michael Chanan, How to Make a Film about Money and Debt without Any Money and without Falling into Debt