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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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Manoeuvring around mainland China's censors and pushing back against threats of lawsuits, online harassment, and physical violence, #MeToo activists shed a particularly harsh light on the treatment of women in the cinema and entertainment industries. Focusing on films from the People's Republic of China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, and the Chinese diaspora, this book considers how female directors shape Chinese visual politics through the depiction of the look, the stare, the leer, the glare, the glimpse, the glance, the queer and the oppositional gaze in fiction and documentary filmmaking. In the years leading up to and following in the wake of #MeToo, these cosmopolitan women filmmakers offer innovative angles on body image, reproduction, romance, family relations, gender identity, generational differences, female sexuality, sexual violence, sex work, labor migration, career options, minority experiences, media access, feminist activism and political rights within the rapidly changing Chinese cultural orbit.

Gender studies: women and girls. --- Media studies. --- Film history, theory or criticism. --- SOCIAL SCIENCE / Media Studies. --- SOCIAL SCIENCE / Women's Studies. --- PERFORMING ARTS / Film & Video / Direction & Production. --- Individual film directors, film-makers. --- Feminist Visual Theory, Women Filmmakers, Transnational Chinese Cinema, the Cinematic Gaze. --- Women motion picture producers and directors --- MeToo movement --- Motion pictures, Chinese. --- China --- Film, Media, and Communication --- PERFORMING ARTS / Film / Direction & Production --- Motion pictures --- Political aspects