Career movies [[electronic resource] ] : American business and the success mystique / / Jack Boozer

• Autore: Boozer Jack <1944->
• Pubblicazione: Austin, TX, : University of Texas Press, 2002
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (301 p.)
• Disciplina: 791.43/655
• Soggetto topico: Business in motion pictures; Motion pictures - United States
• Note generali: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. [275]-280) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Machine generated contents note: INTRODUCTION 1 -- CHAPTER 1. THE CLASSICAL CORPORATE EXECUTIVE FILM 18 -- CHAPTER 2. THE EMERGENCE OF THE CAREER WOMAN 50 -- CHAPTER 3. THE ENTREPRENEURIAL IMPULSE 95 -- CHAPTER 4. HUCKSTER FOREPLAY: THE PROMOTION INDUSTRY 146 -- CHAPTER 5. WORKING IN AMERICAN TELEVIRTUALITY 199 -- CONCLUSION 238 -- LIST OF FILM STILLS 251.
• Sommario/riassunto: Achieving the American Dream became inextricably linked with career/business success after World War II, as an increasingly consumerist America learned to define the dream through possessions and status. Not surprisingly, Hollywood films in the postwar years reflected the country's preoccupation with work and career success, offering both dramatic and comedic visions of the career quest and its effects on personal fulfillment, family relations, women's roles, and the creation (or destruction) of just and caring communities. In this book, Jack Boozer argues that the career/business film achieved such variety and prominence in the years between 1945 and 2001 that it should be considered a legitimate film genre. Analyzing numerous well-known films from the entire period, he defines the genre as one in which a protagonist strives for career success that often proves to be either elusive despite hard work, or unfulfilling despite material rewards and status. Boozer also explores several distinct subgenres of the career movie—the corporate executive films of the 1950s; the career struggles of (single, married, and/or parenting) women; the entrepreneurial film as it is also embodied in texts about immigrants and racial and ethnic minorities and business-oriented femmes fatales; the explosion of promotionalism and the corporatization of employment; and, finally, the blurring of work and private life in the brave new world of the televirtuality film.
• Titolo autorizzato: Career movies
• ISBN: 0-292-79652-8
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910777512903321
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