ABSTRACT
The current conjuncture brought about by the Great Recession reflects the changes propelled by the processes of globalization which David Harvey describes as a temporal and spatial re-organization of deeply interconnected socio-economic structures at a global scale. As Harvey also states, globalization is understood as an "uneven temporal and geographical development", therefore, both the 2008 Global Financial Crisis and Great Recession should also be analyzed in terms of their local specificities. A common factor in this globalized scenario corresponds to the growing inequalities between a "transnational overclass" and the increasingly precarious "99 percent". From a cultural and film studies methodological approach, the author compares three representative films which deal with the Global Financial Crisis and Great Recession in three different contexts: Margin Call in the United States, Freefall in the United Kingdom and Justice&Co in Spain.
