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Global Finance on Screen: From Wall Street to Side Street, 2017
The Hollywood "Wall Street movie" has long dramatized the practices and effects of hubris, conspiracy, and excess in destabilizing American corporations, cornering financial markets, and engendering financial crisis. Wall Street passions and machinations have always been key narrative drivers in this genre, and it might well be assumed that film has, for its own purposes, exaggerated some of the more sensational aspects of the finance industry. John Paul Rollert, who teaches business ethics at the Booth School of Business, University of Chicago, has observed that many Wall Street films, in their seemingly "reckless celebration of excess," can also lead audiences to bear witness to "the grotesqueries of greed" and thus question
The Turkish Online Journal of Design, Art and Communication, 2014
ABSTRACT John Steinbeck's novel The Grapes of Wrath, published in 1939, depicts the poverty of 1930s America during the " Great Depression " through the tragedy of the Joad family, who lost their home and land in Oklahoma and have to drive to California in the hope of finding employment and plenty like many other farmers. The novel was adapted for the cinema the same year and directed by John Ford. Proving welcome in cinema circles and taking its place as a master work in film history, it was one of the few films with radical political connotations hitherto produced by Hollywood. Nevertheless, this cinematic version of the Great Depression narrative has not escaped criticisms, which have been aimed chiefly at aspects of its content that diverge from its parent work. Compared with the novel, the film has been considered more conservative and optimistic, on the grounds that, although the novel emphasizes the class conflict and portrays the Joads as only one of the many suffering families, the film exerts a redundant focus on the family and commends family values: divergences considered to be supported by the visual style of the film. In this article, while recalling Ford's The Grapes of Wrath, I revisit the above-mentioned criticisms and reassess them in relation to the parenting novel. In doing so, this article also aims to evoke the ongoing economic recession that influences the masses all over the world and the recurrent, unchanging and inevitable outcomes that such crises of capitalism bring for its victims. ÖZET John Steinbeck'in 1939 yılında yayınlanan Gazap Üzümleri romanı, " büyük buhran " olarak bilinen ve 1930'lar boyunca süren iktisadi krizin Amerika Birleşik Devletleri'ndeki etkilerini ve bu krizin tetiklediği yoksulluğun boyutlarını göstermekte, bunu Oklahoma'daki evlerini ve arazilerini kaybedip diğer binlerce çiftçi ailesi gibi iş bulma ve zenginleşme umuduyla Kaliforniya'ya göç etmek zorunda kalan Joad ailesinin trajedisi üzerinden yapmaktadır. Roman yayınlandığı yıl sinemaya uyarlanmıştır. Sinema çevrelerinde büyük bir beğeniyle karşılanan ve Hollywood'un o güne kadar ürettiği en radikal siyasi mesajlarla örülü filmlerden biri olan bu uyarlama sinema tarihinin başyapıtları arasındaki yerini almıştır. Ancak, iktisadi kriz anlatısının bu sinema versiyonu yapıldığından bu yana geçen yıllar içinde eleştirilere konu olmaktan kurtulamamıştır. Eleştiriler özellikle filmin kaynak romandan farklılaşan içeriğine yönelmiş, romanla karşılaştırıldığında film daha muhafazakar ve iyimser olarak değerlendirilmiştir. Kaynak romanın sınıf çatışmasına vurgu yapmasına ve Joad ailesini krizin etkilediği ailelerden yalnızca biri olarak resmetmesine karşın filmin aileyi ve aile değerlerini öne çıkarması muhafazakarlık eleştirilerinin başlıca dayanaklarından biri olagelmiştir. Bu farklılaşmanın filmin görsel biçimince de desteklendiği öne sürülmüştür. Bu makalede Ford'un Gazap Üzümleri filmine ilişkin sözü edilen eleştiriler kaynak romanla da bağlantılandırılarak ele alınıp değerlendirilirken, dünya genelinde sürmekte olan iktisadi krize ve kapitalizmin bu tür krizlerinin değişmeyen ve kaçınılmaz sonuçlarına dikkat çekilmektedir. Anahtar Kelimeler: Gazap Üzümleri, John Ford, film, görsel biçim, uyarlama.
Adaptation and Convergence of Media: 'High' Culture Intermediality Versus Popular Culture Intermediality (BOOK), 2018
Cinema offers a wide communicative and artistic potential for channeling complex data and information into the public domain. For this reason, the dominant culture industries often promote a type of passive spectatorship responding to the interests of the hegemonic social sectors. Nonetheless, different dramaturgical techniques can enrich the possibilities of narrative cinema too, affecting the knowledge of the public about specific topics and empowering its critical abilities towards them. This could be the case of the film 'The Big Short' (2015), directed by Adam McKay, an adaptation of the non-fiction book by Michael Lewis about the great financial crisis of 2007 and 2008, which offers a great challenge to some of the major prejudices towards film adaptations. By examining the inventive formal proposal and genuine insights of this film in relation to its original literary source and other films on the financial crisis—namely, Charles Ferguson’s documentary 'Inside Job' (2010) and J. C. Chandor’s drama 'Margin Call' (2011)—, 'The Big Short' can serve to underline the capacity of cinema to not simply represent or illustrate its written source, but to become an autonomous cultural intervention that complements and even contributes to its literary point of departure.
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