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Reading management and organization in film / Emma Bell.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Management, work and organisationsPublication details: Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan, 2008.Description: ix, 228 pages. : illustrations. ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 9780230520929 (pbk.) :
  • 0230520928 (pbk.) :
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 791.43 BEL 22
LOC classification:
  • PN1995.9.B87 B45 2008

Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

The advent of film has meant that we are able to capture in great detail - and often inadvertently - the enduring aspects of our working lives. Reading Management and Organisation in Film provides a new framework for understanding organizational theory and its development in a vital new way.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 208-223) and index.

Table of contents provided by Syndetics

  • List of film plates (p. viii)
  • Acknowledgements (p. ix)
  • Introduction (p. 1)
  • 1 Reading film: studying management (p. 13)
  • 2 The organization of film (p. 41)
  • 3 The invisible enemy (p. 65)
  • 4 Organization man (p. 89)
  • 5 Deconstructing the worker (p. 115)
  • 6 Representing the other (p. 139)
  • 7 The search for meaning (p. 161)
  • 8 Spectres of organization (p. 185)
  • Filmography (p. 204)
  • Bibliography (p. 208)
  • Index (p. 225)

Author notes provided by Syndetics

EMMA BELL is a Senior Lecturer in Organisation Studies in the School of Management at the University of Bath.
EMMA BELL is a Senior Lecturer in Organisation Studies in the School of Management at the University of Bath.

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