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Finance and the world economy in Weimar cinema

Title: Finance and the world economy in Weimar cinema / Owen Lyons.
Author: Lyons, Owen
Publication: Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, [2023]

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Description

274 pages : illustrations; 24 cm.

Summary

"Between the World Wars, the contours of what would come to be understood as the world economy began to appear on in the cinemas of the Weimar Republic. To a non-specialist audience, it remained an invisible and barely understood effect on everyday life. "Finance and the World Economy in Weimar Cinema" argues that the popular understanding of this newly interconnected financial world order, and its new inhabitants, is essential to an understanding of the cultural products of the Weimar Republic - particularly in relation to ideas of gender, nation and modernity. This popular depiction of finance capital appears everywhere in 1920s Germany but has been overlooked, particularly in the films of the time. As a visual record, these films reveal the stock exchange as an essential space of modernity and coincide with the beginning of the abstraction of financial markets that would result in their increasing propagation as images and as a vast labour of representation throughout the twentieth century."--

Series Statement

Film culture in transition

Uniform Title

Film culture in transition.

Subject

Genre/Form

History

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references (pages [257]-266) and index.

Contents

Introduction -- Chapter 1: The Stock Exchange as a Space of Modernity and Labour of Representation -- Chapter 2: Dr. Mabuse and His Doubles -- Chapter 3: Women and Financial Capital in Weimar Cinema -- Chapter 4: Finance, Liquidity and the Crisis of Masculinity in Weimar Cinema -- Chapter 5: The Aggregate Image and the World Economy Macroeconomic Visions -- Epilogue -- Fungibility and Authenticity -- Appendix -- Bibliography

Call Number

MFL 24-58

ISBN

9789463727136
9463727132
9789048551934 (canceled/invalid)

OCLC

1379091595

Author

Lyons, Owen, author.

Title

Finance and the world economy in Weimar cinema / Owen Lyons.

Publisher

Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, [2023]

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Film culture in transition

Film culture in transition.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (pages [257]-266) and index.

Chronological Term

1900-1999

Research Call Number

MFL 24-58

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