CINE469Y

The course examines the manners in which law and money constrained and directed the creation, circulation, distribution, and exhibition of art and cinema. Themes to be explored will include, but not limited to, cinematic representations of artists, bankers, and lawyers; how artists (such as Picasso) achieved financial success and critical acclaim through courting of dealers, critics, collectors, and curators;art crimes (forgery, theft, looting, money laundering); how science fiction films were marketed in response to financial pressures; trials in which artists, artworks, and films acted as protagonists; censorship and self-censorship of art and cinema; art as investment and the roles of private banking services in the global art market.