Film and the Financial Gaze

This chapter explores the power relations in play as films look at finance and as finance looks generally at the world and back at us. Using Harun Farocki’s documentary, Nothing Ventured (2004), we can understand how valuation and capitalisation are negotiated through the gaze of the investor. The chapter moves on to consider the gendered nature of the financial gaze through case studies of mainstream US narratives, Equity (Menon, 2016) and The Wolf of Wall Street (Scorsese, 2013).