Reading Management and Organization in Film

ISBN-13: 9780230520929 / Angielski / Miękka / 2008 / 240 str.

Emma Bell

Opis

Management, Organisations and Film provides a critical historical analysis of representations of management and organization in film. Using a diverse range of classic and contemporary films from the 1920s to present day to explore common scenic conventions, such as the open-plan office or the elevator encounter, and characters, such as the drone-worker, corporate executive and career girl, the book argues that these representations provide important insights into enduring concerns about the role of organisations.

Spis treści

List of Film Plates .- Acknowledgements.- Introduction.- 1. Reading film: studying management.- 2. The organization of film.- 3. The invisible enemy.- 4. Organization man.- 5. Deconstructing the worker.- 6. Representing the other.- 7. The search for meaning.- 8. Spectres of organization.- Bibliography.- Filmography.- Subject Index.

O autorze

EMMA BELL is a Senior Lecturer in Organisation Studies in the School of Management at the University of Bath.