Disappearing bodies
The workplace and documentary film in an era of pure money
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12244358 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Sarah Waters (0000-0002-0949-126X, University of Leeds, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2015 |
| Volume | 26 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 289-301 |
| Publication date | 2015-08-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | French Cultural Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0957-1558 • E-ISSN: 1740-2352 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1177/0957155815587247 |
| OpenAlex | W2275763695 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 9 |
This article examines recent documentary films that have sought to narrate, record and criticise the effects on the French workplace of a shift to a new model of finance capitalism driven by ‘pure’ money. The films give representation to subjective experiences in the workplace showing how abstract economics is played out at the most intimate, personal and material level. The films seem to challenge dominant representations of finance capitalism as an order that has emancipated workers from the physical and disciplinary constraints of industrialism. The workers in these films describe the transition to a new economic order in terms of an intensification of corporeal pain. We see an economic order that pits an infinite accumulation of virtual money against the finite productive capacities of the human body
Aesthetics · Art · Capitalism · Discipline · Economics · Industrial Revolution · Order (exchange · Political science · Representation (politics · Social science · Sociology · Cultural Industries and Urban Development · Law · Management and Organizational Studies · Political and Economic history of UK and US · Finance
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| Citations per year | 1 |
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| Citation span | 2025 - 2025 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |