| Description |
x, 271 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Contents |
Introduction / John Hassard and Ruth Holliday -- Pt. I. Realism and Representation. 1. The Documentary Film Movement: The Post Office Touches all Branches of Life / Ian Aitken. 2. Representing Reality: Cinema Verite / John Hassard. 3. The Cultural Representation of Trade Unions / Peter Stead -- Pt. II. Sex and Violence. 4. What is Wrong with this Picture? Sex and Gender Relations in Disclosure / Joanna Brewis. 5. Philadelphia: AIDS, Organization, Representation / Ruth Holliday. 6. Saloon Girls: Death and Desire in the American West / Maggie O'Neill -- Pt. III. Men and Supermen. 7. Child's Play: Representations of Organization in Children's Literature / Christopher Grey. 8. Management Gurus: What are We to Make of Them? / Norman Jackson and Pippa Carter. 9. Fictional Money (or, Greed Isn't so Good in the 1990s) / Linda McDowell. 10. Masculinity and Madness / Rolland Munro -- Pt. IV. Organizational Futures |
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11. Cyborganization: Cinema as Nervous System / Martin Parker and Robert Cooper. 12. Computers and Representation: Organization in the Virtual World / Warren Smith. 13. Sublime Technologies and Future Organization in Science Fiction Film, 1970-95 / J. Martin Corbett |
| Summary |
Clarifying the complex social relationship between organisation and its representation, contributors enhance our understanding of work and organisation and question basic, traditionally accepted distinctions between 'fiction' and 'reality' |
| Notes |
A collection of 13 essays by various authors |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Corporate culture.
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Mass media.
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Organization in popular culture.
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Organizational behavior.
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Popular culture.
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| Author |
Hassard, John, 1953-
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Holliday, Ruth.
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| LC no. |
97069195 |
| ISBN |
0761953914 |
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0761953922 (paperback) |
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