國立高雄大學圖資館 |

Language: English

Back

Narrating the global financial crisi...

Meissner, Miriam.

Narrating the global financial crisisurban imaginaries and the politics of myth /

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Narrating the global financial crisisby Miriam Meissner.
Reminder of title:	urban imaginaries and the politics of myth /
Author:	Meissner, Miriam.
Published:	Cham :Springer International Publishing :2017.
Description:	xii, 252 p. :ill., digital ;24 cm.
Contained By:	Springer eBooks
Subject:	Financial crises.
Online resource:	http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-45411-5
ISBN:	9783319454115$q(electronic bk.)

Narrating the global financial crisisurban imaginaries and the politics of myth /
Meissner, Miriam.

Narrating the global financial crisisurban imaginaries and the politics of myth /[electronic resource] :by Miriam Meissner. - Cham :Springer International Publishing :2017. - xii, 252 p. :ill., digital ;24 cm. - Palgrave studies in globalization, culture and society. - Palgrave studies in globalization, culture and society..

1. Introduction: Myths of Finance and the City -- 2. Mythical Crisis Perspectives -- 3. Setting the Scene: Financial Spaces and Architectures -- 4. Figuring Flows: Urban Transport Myths of Trading -- 5. Dwelling in Times of Financialization: Dreams, Ruins, Escapism -- 6. Specters of Finance and the Black Box City -- 7. Conclusion: Financialization, Spectral Absence and the Politics of Myth.

Using examples from film, literature and photography, this book analyzes how the Global Financial Crisis is portrayed in contemporary popular culture. In particular, the book explores why particular urban spaces, infrastructures and aesthetics - such as skyline shots in the opening credits of financial crisis films - recur in contemporary crisis narratives. Why are cities and finance connected in the cultural imaginary? Which ideologies do urban crisis imaginaries communicate? And, how do these imaginaries relate to the notion of crisis? To consider these questions, the book reads crisis narratives through the lens of myth. It combines perspectives from cultural, media and communication studies, anthropology, philosophy, geography and political economy to argue that the concept of myth can offer new and nuanced insights into the structure and politics of popular financial crisis imaginaries. In so doing, the book also asks if, how and under what conditions urban crisis imaginaries open up or foreclose systematic and political understandings of the Global Financial Crisis as a symptom of the broader process of financialization.

ISBN: 9783319454115$q(electronic bk.)

Standard No.: 10.1007/978-3-319-45411-5doiSubjects--Topical Terms:

190604
Financial crises.

LC Class. No.: HB3722 / .M45 2017

Dewey Class. No.: 330.905

Narrating the global financial crisisurban imaginaries and the politics of myth /
LDR:02595nmm a2200325 a 4500 001 525997
003 DE-He213
005 20180223142324.0
006 m d
007 cr nn 008maaau
008 180926s2017 gw s 0 eng d
020 $a 9783319454115$q(electronic bk.)
020 $a 9783319454108$q(paper)
024 7 $a 10.1007/978-3-319-45411-5 $2 doi
035 $a 978-3-319-45411-5
040 $a GP $c GP
041 0 $a eng
050 4 $a HB3722 $b .M45 2017
072 7 $a JFD $2 bicssc
072 7 $a SOC052000 $2 bisacsh
082 0 4 $a 330.905 $2 23
090 $a HB3722 $b .M515 2017
100 1 $a Meissner, Miriam. $3 798613
245 1 0 $a Narrating the global financial crisis $h [electronic resource] : $b urban imaginaries and the politics of myth / $c by Miriam Meissner.
260 $a Cham : $b Springer International Publishing : $b Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, $c 2017.
300 $a xii, 252 p. : $b ill., digital ; $c 24 cm.
490 1 $a Palgrave studies in globalization, culture and society
505 0 $a 1. Introduction: Myths of Finance and the City -- 2. Mythical Crisis Perspectives -- 3. Setting the Scene: Financial Spaces and Architectures -- 4. Figuring Flows: Urban Transport Myths of Trading -- 5. Dwelling in Times of Financialization: Dreams, Ruins, Escapism -- 6. Specters of Finance and the Black Box City -- 7. Conclusion: Financialization, Spectral Absence and the Politics of Myth.
520 $a Using examples from film, literature and photography, this book analyzes how the Global Financial Crisis is portrayed in contemporary popular culture. In particular, the book explores why particular urban spaces, infrastructures and aesthetics - such as skyline shots in the opening credits of financial crisis films - recur in contemporary crisis narratives. Why are cities and finance connected in the cultural imaginary? Which ideologies do urban crisis imaginaries communicate? And, how do these imaginaries relate to the notion of crisis? To consider these questions, the book reads crisis narratives through the lens of myth. It combines perspectives from cultural, media and communication studies, anthropology, philosophy, geography and political economy to argue that the concept of myth can offer new and nuanced insights into the structure and politics of popular financial crisis imaginaries. In so doing, the book also asks if, how and under what conditions urban crisis imaginaries open up or foreclose systematic and political understandings of the Global Financial Crisis as a symptom of the broader process of financialization.
650 0 $a Financial crises. $3 190604
650 0 $a Sociology, Urban. $3 198343
650 1 4 $a Cultural and Media Studies. $3 732821
650 2 4 $a Media and Communication. $3 742407
650 2 4 $a Documentary. $3 750473
650 2 4 $a Photography. $3 240740
650 2 4 $a Journalism. $3 181127
650 2 4 $a Fiction. $3 177613
650 2 4 $a Finance, general. $3 731054
710 2 $a SpringerLink (Online service) $3 273601
773 0 $t Springer eBooks
830 0 $a Palgrave studies in globalization, culture and society. $3 798614
856 4 0 $u http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-45411-5
950 $a Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (Springer-41173)