Narrating the global financial crisis : urban imaginaries and the politics of myth /: urban imaginaries and the politics of myth. ([2017])

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Miriam Meissner.
• Other Names: Meissner, Miriam
• Contents: Narrating the Global Financial Crisis; Acknowledgements; Contents; List of Figures; 1 Introduction: Myths of Finance and the City; Portraying Finance; Financialization; Mapping Myth; 2 Mythical Crisis Perspectives; Myth and Economics; Myth and Crisis; Myth and Finance; Myth and Form; Myth and Cities; 3 Setting the Scene: Financial Spaces and Architectures; Critical Theory and the Capitalist City; Critical Theory and the Late Capitalist City; Setting the Scene: City Geometries; The "Financial Gaze": Urban Panorama Shots; Skyline Speculations; Skyscraper Ambivalence; Façade Perplexities. Present Absences in the CityNotes; 4 Figuring Flows: Urban Transport Myths of Trading; The New Spirit of Finance Capitalism; The "Subway Pitch"; Subway Mythologies; A "Limology" of Flows; Capital Cosmologies; Flow Sacrifices; 5 Dwelling in Times of Financialization: Dreams, Ruins, Escapism; American Dreams of Dwelling; Chronotopes of Capital; Ruins, New Ruins, Mini Ruins; Dwelling Escapism; Dwelling Deficiencies; 6 Specters of Finance and the Black Box City; Specters of Finance; Black Box Cities; Black Box Myths; Urban Hauntings of Financialization; Notes. 7 Conclusion: Financialization, Spectral Absence and the Politics of MythNote; Bibliography; Index.
• Publisher Details: Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan
• Publication Date: 2017
• Extent: 1 online resource (xii, 252 pages)
• Subjects: 330.905; Financial crises; Sociology, Urban; BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Economics -- General; BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Reference; Financial crises; Sociology, Urban; Performing Arts -- Film & Video -- General; Photography -- General; Language Arts & Disciplines -- Journalism; Fiction -- General; Business & Economics -- Finance; Documentary films; Photography & photographs; Press & journalism; Fiction & related items; Finance; Communication; Documentary films; Photography; Fiction; Finance; Social Science -- Media Studies; Media studies; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9783319454115; 3319454110
• Related ISBNs: 3319454102; 9783319454108
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed June 8, 2017).
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