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Career movies : American business and the success mystique
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ISBN: 0292709110 0292709129 0292796528 Year: 2002 Publisher: Austin, TX : University of Texas Press,

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Achieving the American Dream became inextricably linked with career/business success after World War II, as an increasingly consumerist America learned to define the dream through possessions and status. Not surprisingly, Hollywood films in the postwar years reflected the country's preoccupation with work and career success, offering both dramatic and comedic visions of the career quest and its effects on personal fulfillment, family relations, women's roles, and the creation (or destruction) of just and caring communities. In this book, Jack Boozer argues that the career/business film achieved such variety and prominence in the years between 1945 and 2001 that it should be considered a legitimate film genre. Analyzing numerous well-known films from the entire period, he defines the genre as one in which a protagonist strives for career success that often proves to be either elusive despite hard work, or unfulfilling despite material rewards and status. Boozer also explores several distinct subgenres of the career movie—the corporate executive films of the 1950s; the career struggles of (single, married, and/or parenting) women; the entrepreneurial film as it is also embodied in texts about immigrants and racial and ethnic minorities and business-oriented femmes fatales; the explosion of promotionalism and the corporatization of employment; and, finally, the blurring of work and private life in the brave new world of the televirtuality film.


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Contemporary film and economics : lights! camera! econ!
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ISBN: 1351258192 1351258184 1351258206 Year: 2018 Publisher: Boca Raton, FL : Routledge, an imprint of Taylor and Francis,

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What does the movie Lion tell us about why some societies grow rich and others remain poor? What can the global box office juggernaut, Jurassic World tell us about entrepreneurs and the ethics of business? Can the movie Passengers give us insight into human motivation and decision making? This book surveys more than 40 movies to answer these questions and much more.Contemporary Film and Economics is a must read for anyone interested in how movies project and interpret economic ideas, craft popular narratives for how economies operate, and explore motivations for economic behavior. Economists will find it useful in starting discussions on key concepts, while filmmakers will find the discussions of economic concepts a provocative way of thinking about how to craft engaging stories that are grounded in practical experience.Movies do more than entertain. They project important insights, often unintentional, into the way the world works and the values society cares about. Indeed, their stories are often grounded in the real-world experiences of everyday people. As part of this, movies also provide a window into understanding and evaluating economic behavior. Economics is, after all, the study of how scarce resources like labor, capital, and technology are used to improve (or reduce) our welfare. It also helps us to more fully understand the consequences in our lives that result from those choices and decisions. Through exploring a wide range of films from Passengers to Victoria and Abdul, this book delves into economic concepts such as opportunity costs, profit maximization, greed, business ethics, monopoly, economic growth, and entrepreneurship.


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Héros : action, innovation, interaction dans les organisations et au cinéma
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ISBN: 9782356710642 Year: 2014 Publisher: Mougins (Alpes-Maritimes) : Presses des Mines,

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L'auteur établit un parallèle entre le manager efficace et le héros de cinéma en tant que modèle mythique et pragmatique des sociétés modernes, ancré dans la culture populaire et l'éthique dominante du monde du travail. A travers l'étude de 200 films et d'une trentaine de traités de management, il dégage des traits communs à ces deux figures. ©Electre 2015 Et si le héros de cinéma et le manager efficace selon les manuels spécialisés partageaient un certain nombre de traits comportementaux sur la longue durée ? Alors, le recours au cinéma dans les enseignements en sciences sociales et en gestion, qui se développe fortement depuis une vingtaine d'années, ne reposerait pas seulement sur le pouvoir d'illustration de l'image animée. Il révélerait une figure à la fois mythique et pragmatique de héros, proposée en modèle aux sociétés modernes, ancrée dans la culture populaire et une éthique dominante du monde du travail. A partir d'un corpus d'une trentaine de traités de management et de plus de deux cents films américains, ce livre brosse le portrait d'un héros-leader managérial et hollywoodien qui est à l'origine d'un ensemble de prescriptions, en partie paradoxales, touchant aux domaines de l'action, de l'innovation et des interactions sociales.

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