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Book Synopsis
An analysis of the career/business film as a genre.

Table of Contents
  • Introduction
    • From American Dream to Success Mystique
    • Defining the Genre and Other Theoretical Approaches
    • Organizational Structure
  • Chapter 1. The Classical Corporate Executive Film
    • Executive Promotion and Family Allegiance
    • Corporate Nationalism
    • Shoring Up the New Male Bureaucrat
    • Beyond the Corporate-Family Equation
  • Chapter 2. The Emergence of the Career Woman
    • From Shamed Working Moms in Noir and Classical Melodrama to Embarrassed Ones in Comedy
    • The 1970s and After: Transitional Consciousness Gives Way to Clones, Comedic Supermoms, and Competitive Saboteurs
    • Consumerism's Legacy of Narcissism and Displacement
  • Chapter 3. The Entrepreneurial Impulse
    • Surveying the Agony and Ecstasy of Ownership
    • Immigrant and Racial Issues in Family Businesses
    • Entrepreneurial Femmes Fatales in the Film Noir Tradition
    • Eroticized Success Mastery and Repetition Compulsion
  • Chapter 4. Huckster Foreplay: The Promotion Industry
    • From Early Cinema Hucksters to Corporate Media Demagogues
    • Directing Desire in the Postwar Classical Film
    • Evident Resistance in the Transitional Era
    • The Entrepreneurialization of Employment and Other Promotional Realities in the 1980s and 1990s
  • Chapter 5. Working in American Televirtuality
    • From Network TV to Cultic Space and Cultural Metaphor
    • The Drive to Virtuality in Production and Consumption
    • Reception and Simulational Identity in Cyberspace
  • Conclusion
  • List of Film Stills
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index

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      Publisher: University of Texas Press
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 01/01/2003
      ISBN13: 9780292709126, 978-0292709126
      ISBN10: 0292709129

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      An analysis of the career/business film as a genre.

      Table of Contents
      • Introduction
        • From American Dream to Success Mystique
        • Defining the Genre and Other Theoretical Approaches
        • Organizational Structure
      • Chapter 1. The Classical Corporate Executive Film
        • Executive Promotion and Family Allegiance
        • Corporate Nationalism
        • Shoring Up the New Male Bureaucrat
        • Beyond the Corporate-Family Equation
      • Chapter 2. The Emergence of the Career Woman
        • From Shamed Working Moms in Noir and Classical Melodrama to Embarrassed Ones in Comedy
        • The 1970s and After: Transitional Consciousness Gives Way to Clones, Comedic Supermoms, and Competitive Saboteurs
        • Consumerism's Legacy of Narcissism and Displacement
      • Chapter 3. The Entrepreneurial Impulse
        • Surveying the Agony and Ecstasy of Ownership
        • Immigrant and Racial Issues in Family Businesses
        • Entrepreneurial Femmes Fatales in the Film Noir Tradition
        • Eroticized Success Mastery and Repetition Compulsion
      • Chapter 4. Huckster Foreplay: The Promotion Industry
        • From Early Cinema Hucksters to Corporate Media Demagogues
        • Directing Desire in the Postwar Classical Film
        • Evident Resistance in the Transitional Era
        • The Entrepreneurialization of Employment and Other Promotional Realities in the 1980s and 1990s
      • Chapter 5. Working in American Televirtuality
        • From Network TV to Cultic Space and Cultural Metaphor
        • The Drive to Virtuality in Production and Consumption
        • Reception and Simulational Identity in Cyberspace
      • Conclusion
      • List of Film Stills
      • Notes
      • Bibliography
      • Index

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