ISBN:
0761953914
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0761953922
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9780761953913
Sprache:
Englisch
Seiten:
Online-Ressource (x, 271 p)
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ill
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24 cm
Ausgabe:
Online-Ausg. 2010 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Paralleltitel:
Print version Organization-Representation : Work and Organizations in Popular Culture
DDC:
306
Schlagwort(e):
Organization in popular culture
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Organization in popular culture
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Electronic books
Kurzfassung:
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 supposed
Beschreibung / Inhaltsverzeichnis:
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
Beschreibung / Inhaltsverzeichnis:
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
Anmerkung:
A collection of 13 essays by various authors
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
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