The Great Recession and Transnational Horror: Sajit Warrier's Crossover FilmFired(2010) (original) (raw)

2016, The Journal of Popular Culture

, when victims of the subprime mortgage crisis suffered the first waves of foreclosures in the United States. However, global panic broke out with the fall of Lehman Brothers in September 2008. The so-called "global financial crisis" was officially inaugurated when it hit the financial centers in New York and London (Harvey, Enigma 1-5). The global financial crisis and its aftermath have inspired a proliferation of written and audiovisual materials produced by journalists and academics who have tried to diagnose the economic, political, and cultural causes of the crisis, analyze its consequences, and elucidate possible courses of action for the future (Hayward 283-85; Meissner 98; Negra and Tasker 2). 2 Cinema has become one of the vehicles to explain the causes and consequences of the bubble burst to help audiences make sense of the new context of uncertainty and austerity. Cinematic representations of the crisis have frequently taken the form of documentaries, but also of family melodramas and corporate dramas that stage the moment when financial executives learned about the financial meltdown. These filmic recreations of the financial crash share a common concern with the causes and consequences of the economic crisis (Oliete-Aldea 348-49). Notable among these films are US mainstream and independent corporate dramas such as Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps (dir. Oliver Stone), Margin Call (dir. J.C. Chandor), and Too Big to Fail (dir. Curtis Hanson), British

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