Meissner, Miriam2018-09-262018-09-262012http://necsus-ejms.org/test-site/portraying-the-global-financial-crisis-myth-aesthetics-and-the-city/https://mediarep.org/handle/doc/3195From 2007 until today an intricate set of events has been unsettling the global financial markets. The naming of these incidents has been multifold, varying between a general rhetoric of economic downturn (‘crash’, ‘crunch’, ‘meltdown’, ‘hangover’) and more descriptive terminologies indicating the reasons, geographic involvements, and historic time-span of the developments at hand such as: ‘US subprime mortgage crisis’, ‘European sovereign-debt crisis’, and ‘late 2000s financial crisis’. From the outset, the media played a key role in communicating and interpreting these market developments.engStadtKriseDokumentarfilmFilmWeltmarktMythosUrbanitätFinanzkriseArchitekturcitycrisisdocumentaryfilmfinancialglobalmarketmythurban79110.5117/NECSUS2012.1.MEIS10.25969/mediarep/150432213-0217