The Birth of the Financial Thriller

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Mikkel Krause Frantzen is Associate Professor at the Department of Arts and Cultural Studies, University of Copenhagen. He is the author of several books, including Going Nowhere, Slow (2019), Klodens Fald (2021) and Slutspil (2024), and a literary critic at the Danish newspaper Politiken. He has been part of the research project "Finance Fiction - Financialization and Culture in the Early 21st Century", co-edited the book Finance Aesthetics - A Critical Glossary (Goldsmiths Press, 2024) and has written extensively on financialisation and financial fictions of the 1970s from Paul Erdman to William Gaddis.

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Illustrates how the financial thriller is deeply intertwined with the economic transformation of the 1970s and considers the genre's enduring legacy in today's financialised world.