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Organization-Representation : Work and Organizations in Popular Culture.
Title:
Organization-Representation : Work and Organizations in Popular Culture.
Author:
Hassard, John.
ISBN:
9780857026095
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Edition:
1st ed.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (284 pages)
Contents:
Cover -- Table of Contents -- Introduction -- Part I - Realism and Representation -- 1 - The Documentary Film Movement: The Post Office Touches All Branches of Life -- 2 - Representing Reality: Cinema Verite -- 3 - The Cultural Representation of Trade Unions -- Part II - Sex and Violence -- 4 - What is Wrong with this Picture? Sex and Gender Relations in Disclosure -- 5 - Philadelphia: AIDS, Organization, Representation -- 6 - Saloon Girls: Death and Desire in the American West -- Part III - Men and Superman -- 7 - Child's Play: Representations of Organization in Children's Literature -- 8 - Management Gurus: What are We to Make of Them? -- 9 - Fictional Money (or, Greed Isn't so Good in the 1990s) -- Part IV - Organizational Futures -- 11 - Cyborganization: Cinema as Nervous System -- 12 - Computers and Representation: Organization in the Virtual World -- 13 - Sublime Technologies and Future Organization in Science Fiction Film, 1970-95 -- Index.
Abstract:
The representation of organizations and working life in the popular media signifies, but also helps shape, contemporary practice and institutions. Organization-Representation unravels the complex social relationship between organization and its representation, offering new insights into the interaction between the popular images we create and receive, and the power relations that govern society, working life and culture. Representations in Hollywood movies, ethnographic and documentary films, children's literature and the popular and `quality' press replicate the power structures they supposedly describe and consequently help shape contemporary realities. This volume offers rich insights into the relations between cu.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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