{"product_id":"career-movies-9780292709126","title":"Career Movies","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAn analysis of the career\/business film as a genre.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Introduction \u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e From American Dream to Success Mystique \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Defining the Genre and Other Theoretical Approaches \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Organizational Structure \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Chapter 1. The Classical Corporate Executive Film \u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Executive Promotion and Family Allegiance \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Corporate Nationalism \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Shoring Up the New Male Bureaucrat \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Beyond the Corporate-Family Equation \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Chapter 2. The Emergence of the Career Woman \u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e From Shamed Working Moms in Noir and Classical Melodrama to Embarrassed Ones in Comedy \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e The 1970s and After: Transitional Consciousness Gives Way to Clones, Comedic Supermoms, and Competitive Saboteurs \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Consumerism's Legacy of Narcissism and Displacement \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Chapter 3. The Entrepreneurial Impulse \u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Surveying the Agony and Ecstasy of Ownership \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Immigrant and Racial Issues in Family Businesses \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Entrepreneurial Femmes Fatales in the Film Noir Tradition \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Eroticized Success Mastery and Repetition Compulsion \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Chapter 4. Huckster Foreplay: The Promotion Industry \u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e From Early Cinema Hucksters to Corporate Media Demagogues \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Directing Desire in the Postwar Classical Film \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Evident Resistance in the Transitional Era \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e The Entrepreneurialization of Employment and Other Promotional Realities in the 1980s and 1990s \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Chapter 5. Working in American Televirtuality \u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e From Network TV to Cultic Space and Cultural Metaphor \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e The Drive to Virtuality in Production and Consumption \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Reception and Simulational Identity in Cyberspace \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Conclusion \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e List of Film Stills \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Notes \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Bibliography \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Index \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","brand":"University of Texas Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49400848351575,"sku":"9780292709126","price":999.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780292709126.jpg?v=1730471731","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/career-movies-9780292709126","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}