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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 popular depictions of speculation and crisis to make sense of their own place on the shifting ground of modern life. Finance and the World Economy in Weimar Cinema turns to the many underexamined depictions of finance capital that appear in the films of 1920s Germany. The representation of finance capital in these films is essential to our understanding of the culture of the Weimar Republic - particularly in the relation between finance and ideas of gender, nation and modernity. As visual records, these films reveal the stock exchange as a key space of modernity and coincide with the abstraction of finance as a vast labour of representation in its own right. In so doing, they introduce core visual tropes that have become essential to our understanding of finance and capitalism throughout the twentieth century.
Film, Weimar Republic, Economy, Capitalism, Cultural Studies. --- Capitalism. --- Film history, theory or criticism. --- PERFORMING ARTS / Film / Genres / Historical. --- HISTORY / Europe / Germany. --- BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Economic History. --- Finance. --- Film theory and criticism. --- Motion pictures --- Economics in motion pictures. --- History
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Comme des sujets accros aux drogues, les sociétés pourraient-elles devenir elles-mêmes "addictes" ? C'est-à-dire pathologiquement dépendantes de la recherche compulsive de certains biens, en dépit de ses conséquences nocives pour l'ensemble de la collectivité ? Si l'on en croit une critique ravageuse qui traverse toutes les productions culturelles, et en particulier le cinéma, c'est bien ce qui arrive aux démocraties libérales contemporaines : optimisation extrème des activités, course à l'argent et au succès, surconsommation marchande, usage compulsif des technologies, épuisement des ressources naturelles, corruption de la démocratie... Loin de contredire le processus de rationalisation propre au capitalisme moderne, cette dérive addictive en serait plutôt la conséquence paradoxale, qui rend de plus en plus difficile la poursuite de fins rationnelles communes. Si les cibles de l'émancipation portent toujours sur les libertés et égalités de base, devenues de plus en plus précaires, elles s'étendent désormais aux moyens de protéger le désir intime des intrusions marchandes, technologiques ou sécuritaires, qui enserrent les habitants dans un réseau toujours plus dense de dépendances indésirables.
Consumption (Economics) --- Consumption (Economics) in motion pictures. --- Compulsive behavior --- Consumers --- Social aspects. --- Psychological aspects. --- Economic aspects. --- Attitudes. --- Capitalisme --- Cinéma --- Société de consommation --- Consommation --- Comportement compulsif --- Consommateurs --- Consumption (Economics) in motion pictures --- Aspect social --- Au cinéma --- Aspect psychologique --- Au cinéma --- Aspect économique --- Comportement --- Social aspects --- Psychological aspects --- Economic aspects --- Attitudes --- Consommation (Economie politique) --- Consommation (Economie politique) au cinéma --- Attitude (psychologie) --- Aspect social. --- Au cinéma. --- Aspect psychologique. --- Au cinéma. --- Aspect économique. --- Attitude. --- Cinéma --- Société de consommation --- Aspect économique.
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