Waters, S (2015) Disappearing bodies: The workplace and documentary film in an era of pure money. French Cultural Studies, 26 (3). pp. 289-301. ISSN 0957-1558
Abstract
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.
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Item Type: | Article |
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Keywords: | documentary film, globalisation, post-Fordism, testimony, workplace |
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Institution: | The University of Leeds |
Academic Units: | The University of Leeds > Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Cultures (Leeds) > School of Languages Cultures & Societies (Leeds) > French (Leeds) |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Publications |
Date Deposited: | 20 Jun 2018 09:27 |
Last Modified: | 20 Jun 2018 09:27 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | Sage Publications |
Identification Number: | 10.1177/0957155815587247 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:128299 |