Fredric Jameson and The Wolf of Wall Street offers an introduction to the film theories of Fredric Jameson, one of the world's foremost Marxist critics. These ideas are then brought to life with a critique of Martin Scorsese's The Wolf of Wall Street, a film that shows in all its glory the excesses, lunacies, and inner workings of 1990s finance capitalism. As a narrative of American success, The Wolf of Wall Street is also a film about failure. Fredric Jameson and The Wolf of Wall Street is a book about a contemporary film, and contemporary events, and contemporary theory.