ABSTRACT
Finance film responds to a public interest in the psycho-intellectual, corporeal, social, and professional profiles of finance people. This interest is both critical and appreciative, as financiers are wealthy and influential people. As interventions in the public sphere, finance films articulate an expected critique of the financial industry. The twenty-first century finance film, as Robert Burgoyne's chapter argues, developed a different chronotope. Its presentations materialized in "post-revolutionary" times, in the wake of the bursts of the tech bubble of 1999-2001 and especially the housing bubble of 2007-2008, and needed extra ingredients to make their insights marketable. Finance film's supply of characters, settings and plots gained more public attention after the financial crisis of 2007-2008. One should note that the 2008 crash also spurred the publication of the first concerted body of academic literature focusing on finance film.
