Post-2008 Films: The Financial Crisis in Fictions and Documentaries
The 2008 crisis has been represented in many fiction and documentary films. This paper analyses these representations in order to present the aesthetic and political characteristics of widely circulated narratives of the crisis. This paper analyses 8 films, starting with an overview, then a structur...
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openedition-oai:revues.org:angles_640 https://doi.org/10.4000/angles.640 urn:doi:10.4000/angles.640 en https://journals.openedition.org/angles/640 2020-07-16T02:00:00Z info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess article info:eu-repo/semantics/article urn:handle:20.500.13089/9myq https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Post-2008 Films: The Financial Crisis in Fictions and Documentaries Angles Société des Anglicistes de l'Enseignement Supérieur info:eu-repo/semantics/reference/issn/2274-2042 URI:https://journals.openedition.org/angles Feyel, Juliette Fourton, Clémence représentation cinéma néolibéralisme crise financière capitalisme film de fiction documentaire representation film neoliberalism financial crisis capitalism fiction film documentary The 2008 crisis has been represented in many fiction and documentary films. This paper analyses these representations in order to present the aesthetic and political characteristics of widely circulated narratives of the crisis. This paper analyses 8 films, starting with an overview, then a structural comparison of these films, isolating the common features of this sub-genre in terms of tropes, characterization and narrative strategy. The paper then assesses the films’ critical dimension against the complexity of their depiction of the 2008 neoliberal crisis and the space granted to anticapitalist voices. Both fictions and documentaries reveal a didactic dimension, but they differ as to their critical dimension. Fictions, with their brilliant casts and alluring dramatization, did well at making a dry topic both accessible and visually attractive, with the risk of glamorizing a topic of both ethical and ideological importance. Documentaries offer a much more critical view, especially when they address the crisis as a worldwide phenomenon revealing the shortcomings of neoliberalism, and when they display popular dissent directed at capitalism. These films armed their viewers with technical knowledge about finance, but for the most part did not encourage viewers to question capitalism as such. La crise financière de 2008 a inspiré beaucoup de documentaires et de films de fiction. Cet article étudie les caractéristiques esthétiques et politiques des interprétations de la crise véhiculées par 8 films, et commence par en proposer un résumé avant d’en comparer la structure pour dégager les traits typiques de ce « sous-genre » en termes de figures, de construction des personnages et de stratégie narrative. La dimension critique de ces films est ensuite évaluée à l’aune de la complexité de la représentation qu’ils offrent de la crise du capitalisme néolibéral et de la place accordée aux opinions anticapitalistes. Il apparaît que les fictions, comme les documentaires, ont une importante dimension didactique, mais sans avoir la même portée critique. Les fictions du corpus se distinguent par des distributions prestigieuses et une tendance à l’idéalisation qui font courir le risque de faire oublier l’importance éthique et idéologique du sujet au profit de l’esthétisme ou du divertissement. Les documentaires proposent des lectures bien plus critiques de la crise, notamment lorsqu’ils en soulignent les dimensions mondiales et représentent divers types de contestation anticapitaliste. Dans leur majorité, ces films aident le public à mieux comprendre le fonctionnement de la finance mais rares sont ceux qui remettent en cause l’existence du système néolibéral en tant que tel. |
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The 2008 crisis has been represented in many fiction and documentary films. This paper analyses these representations in order to present the aesthetic and political characteristics of widely circulated narratives of the crisis. This paper analyses 8 films, starting with an overview, then a structural comparison of these films, isolating the common features of this sub-genre in terms of tropes, characterization and narrative strategy. The paper then assesses the films’ critical dimension against the complexity of their depiction of the 2008 neoliberal crisis and the space granted to anticapitalist voices. Both fictions and documentaries reveal a didactic dimension, but they differ as to their critical dimension. Fictions, with their brilliant casts and alluring dramatization, did well at making a dry topic both accessible and visually attractive, with the risk of glamorizing a topic of both ethical and ideological importance. Documentaries offer a much more critical view, especially when they address the crisis as a worldwide phenomenon revealing the shortcomings of neoliberalism, and when they display popular dissent directed at capitalism. These films armed their viewers with technical knowledge about finance, but for the most part did not encourage viewers to question capitalism as such. |
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Feyel, Juliette Fourton, Clémence |
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Feyel, Juliette Fourton, Clémence |
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Feyel, Juliette |
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Post-2008 Films: The Financial Crisis in Fictions and Documentaries |
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Post-2008 Films: The Financial Crisis in Fictions and Documentaries |
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Angles |
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