Wall Street (1987)

The Secret of my Success (1987)

Working Girl (1988)

Bonfire of the Vanities (1990)

Other People’s Money (1991)

The Associate (1996)

Boiler Room (2000)

American Psycho (2000)

The Pursuit of Happyness (2006)

Wall Street 2: Money Never Sleeps (2010)

Too Big to Fail (TV Movie, 2011)

Limitless (2011)

Cosmopolis (2012)

Assault on Wall Street (2013)

Wolf of Wall Street (2014)

Margin Call (2014)

The Big Short (2015)

Equity (2016)

Money Monster (2016)

The Wizard of Lies (TV movie, 2017)

Crypto (2019)

Dumb Money (2023)

Fredric Jameson and The Wolf of Wall Street (Film Theory in Practice) https://amzn.eu/d/2qnWR7i

Greed Is Good" and Other Fables: Office Life in Popular Culture" https://amzn.eu/d/0wMZkFg

The Representation of Economics in Cinema: Scarcity, Greed and Utopia https://amzn.eu/d/dpl8RZL

Organization-Representation: Work and Organizations in Popular Culture https://amzn.eu/d/2V5l3Wg

Screening Economies: Money Matters and the Ethics of Representation (Culture & Theory) https://amzn.eu/d/9kET5LF

Section A:

Chp 1: Early Wall St Films, 1920s and 1930s

Roaring 20s and 1929 crash

Section B: 1980s and 90s:

Trading Places

Wall St

Secret of my Success

Working Girl

The Associate

Boiler Room

Section C Post 2008:

Wall Street 2

Assault on Wall Street

Wolf of Wall Street

Margin Call

The Big Short

Section D: r/Wallstreetbets and Gamestop saga:

Dumb Money

https://www.womenshistory.org/articles/tracing-roots-women-wall-street

(Why am I not surprised there is a ‘witch’?)

https://m.economictimes.com/markets/stocks/news/defying-the-odds-the-journey-and-wisdom-of-wall-streets-first-lady/amp_articleshow/81722021.cms

https://hermoney.com/connect/the-13-women-who-made-money-history/

Early representations of Wall Street on Film up to mid-1930s (pre-code era) -Jenny

General overview and chronology of Wall Street films from the 198os onwards

Methodology and structure / chapter rationale

Section: "Greed is good"

Chapter: Comedy, Capital and Class in Trading Places (1983) (Jenny?)

Chapter: Wall Street (1987) as morality tale (Melody)?

Chapter: The American Dream: The Secret of my Success -Jenny

Section: Women on Wall Street

Chapter: The Associate and Working Girl (I'll think of a good title) - Jenny

Section: 2008 financial crash

Chapter: The collapse of Lehman Brothers: Margin Call and The Big Short (Jenny?)

Chapter: "Greed is legal": Wall Street 2: Money Never Sleeps

Chapter: Excess -The Wolf of Wall Street (Jenny)

Chapter: Revenge (Melody)

Final section: Cryptocurrency and r/wallstreet bets - Jenny? TikTok traders, Robinhood, and Reddit rebellions

Clancy in Wall Street (1930, Dir Ted Wilde)

Wall Street Cowboy (1939)

American Madness (1932, Frank Capra)

The Toast of New York (1937, dir. Rowland V.Lee)