In the years leading up to the financial crisis that began in 2007, the core of the financial system was vulnerable to major shocks emanating from any of a variety of sources. While this particular crisis was triggered by over-levered home owners and a severe downturn in U.S. housing markets...

Screening finance capital: explorations in speculation, crisis and austerity / Graham Murdock -- Forms of time and the chronotope in the Wall Street film / Robert Burgoyne -- Financial Darwinism in recent American feature films / Pablo Echart and Pablo Castrillo -- "Financial wisdom" as...