Hollywood's Crisis of Capitalism 2011: Inside Job, The Company Men, and the Myth of a Good Capitalism

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Notes

¹ Except where otherwise noted, quotations are from Inside Job and The Company Men.

² Until recently, as the likely Socialist Party candidate for the French presidency, Strauss-Kahn seemed poised to become France's next president. He resigned from his IMF office after his arrest in New York City on May 14, 2011 on charges of attempted rape and an illegal sexual act, which have since been dropped. Other accounts have now emerged of his alleged predatory behavior toward women. This story reminds us that people who work for the public good (accepting that this is true of Strauss-Kahn) are not always good people. See Steven Erlanger and Maïa de la Baume, “Strauss-Kahn Is Not Charged in French Case,” The New York Times, October 14, 2011, p. A1.

³ Slavoj Žižek, First As Tragedy, then as Farce (London and New York: Verso, 2009), p. 78.

⁴ Peter Gowan, “Crisis in the Heartland: Consequences of the New Wall Street System,” New Left Review, second series, no. 55 (January–February 2009), online version, p. 9, < http://www.newleftreview.org/?page = article&view = 2759>.

⁵ Peter Gowan, “Crisis in the Heartland: Consequences of the New Wall Street System,” New Left Review, second series, no. 55 (January–February 2009), online version, p. 9, < http://www.newleftreview.org/?page = article&view = 2759>

⁶ Hernando de Soto, “The Destruction of Economic Facts,” Bloomberg Businessweek, May 2–8, 2011, p. 62.

⁷ Hernando de Soto, “The Destruction of Economic Facts,” Bloomberg Businessweek, May 2–8, 2011, p. 62

⁹ Jonathan Kirshner, “Business As Usual: The Next Wall Street Collapse,” The Boston Review (January/February 2011), < http://www.bostonreview.net/BR36.1/kirshner.php>

⁸ Jonathan Kirshner, “Business As Usual: The Next Wall Street Collapse,” The Boston Review (January/February 2011), < http://www.bostonreview.net/BR36.1/kirshner.php>.

¹⁰ Mark Levinson, “The Politics of Inequality,” Dissent 58:2 (Spring 2011), p. 93.

¹¹ Jeff Madrick, “They Didn't Regulate Enough and Still Don't,” The New York Review of Books 56:17 (November 5, 2009), pp. 54–57.

¹² Jeff Madrick, “The Wall Street Leviathan,” The New York Review of Books 58:7 (April 28, 2011), pp. 70–73.

¹³ Peter Lattman, “The Filmmaker Who Does a ‘Job’ on Wall Street” (interview with Charles Ferguson), The New York Times, October 1, 2010, < http://dealbook.nytimes.com/2010/10/01/the-filmmaker-who-does-a-job-on-wall-street/?ref = movies>.

¹⁴ Talking Heads, “Once in a Lifetime,” from Remain in the Light (Warner Bros, 1980).

¹⁵ David Denby, “‘True Grit,’ ‘The Company Men,’ ‘Somewhere,’ and ‘The Tempest,’” The New Yorker, December 20, 2010, < http://www.newyorker.com/arts/critics/cinema/2010/12/20/101220crci_cinema_denby#ixzz1Mafn2ehe>.

¹⁶ Rex Reed, “Up the Creek Without a Paycheck: The Company Men Paints a Moving, Nuanced Picture of Life After Layoffs,” The New York Observer, December 7, 2010, < http://www.observer.com/2010/culture/creek-without-paycheck-company-men-paints-moving-nuanced-picture-life-after-layoffs?utm_medium = partial-text&utm_campaign = home>.

¹⁷ David Brooks, “The Politics of Solipsism,” The New York Times, May 5, 2011, < http://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/06/opinion/06brooks.html>.

¹⁸ David Brooks, “The Politics of Solipsism,” The New York Times, May 5, 2011, < http://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/06/opinion/06brooks.html>

¹⁹ Reed, “Up the Creek Without a Paycheck.”

²⁰ Robert A. Dahl, On Democracy (New Haven, CT; London: Yale University Press, 1998), p. 175.

²¹ Madrick, “The Wall Street Leviathan,” p. 73.

²² Žižek, First as Tragedy, p. 13.

²³ Pradnya Joshi, “We Knew They Got Raises. But This?,” New York Times, Sunday Business, July 3, 2011, p. 1.

²⁴ Daniel Costello, “The Draught is Over (At Least for CEO's),” New York Times, Sunday Business, April 10, 2011, p. 1.

²⁵ Daniel Costello, “The Draught is Over (At Least for CEO's),” New York Times, Sunday Business, April 10, 2011, 1, 6.

²⁶ Gretchen Morgenson, “Enriching a Few at the Expense of Many,” New York Times, Sunday Business, April 10, 2011, pp. 1, 6.