Edward W. Younkins

Exploring Capitalist Fiction

Business through Literature and Film

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Produktbeschreibung

Fiction, including novels, plays, and films, can be a powerful force in educating students and employees in ways that lectures, textbooks, articles, case studies, and other traditional teaching approaches cannot. Works of fiction can address a range of issues and topics, provide detailed real-life descriptions of the organizational contexts in which workers find themselves, and tell interesting, engaging, and memorable stories that are richer and more likely to stay with the reader or viewer longer than lectures and other teaching approaches. For these reasons, Exploring Capitalist Fiction: Business through Literature and Film analyzes 25 films, novels, and plays that engage the theories, concepts, and issues most relevant to the business world. Through critical examinations of works such as Atlas Shrugged and Wall Street, Younkins shows how fiction is a powerful teaching tool to sensitize business students without business experience and to educate and train managers in real businesses.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Lexington Books
• Seitenzahl: 346
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. Oktober 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 713g
• ISBN-13: 9780739184264
• ISBN-10: 0739184261
• Artikelnr.: 39092770

Autorenporträt

Edward W. Younkins is professor of accountancy and director of graduate programs in the Department of Business at Wheeling Jesuit University.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface Introduction Chapter 1. The Rise of Silas Lapham: A Story of
Self-Identity, Self-Respect, and Morality Chapter 2. Taking a Look at
Edward Bellamy's Looking Backward Chapter 3. Frank Norris's The Octopus: An
Epic of Wheat and Railroads Chapter 4. The Financier: Theodore Dreiser's
Portrait of a Darwinian Businessman Chapter 5. Abraham Cahan's The Rise of
David Levinsky Chapter 6. Babbitt: Sinclair Lewis's Portrait of a
Middle-Aged Middle Class Businessman Chapter 7. "Who is Henry M. Galt?": A
Review of Garet Garrett's The Driver Chapter 8. F. Scott Fitzgerald's The
Great Gatsby Chapter 9. An American Romance: King Vidor's Epic Film of
Immigration and the American Dream Chapter 10. Arthur Miller's Death of a
Salesman: A Case of Self-Delusion Chapter 11. John P. Marquand's Point of
No Return Chapter 12. Henry Hazlitt's Time Will Run Back: A Tale of the
Reinvention of Capitalism Chapter 13. Executive Suite: A Story of Corporate
Success and Succession Chapter 14. Cash McCall: The Story of a Heroic
Corporate Rider Chapter 15. Sloan Wilson's The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit
Chapter 16. Atlas Shrugged: An Epic Story of Heroic Businessmen Chapter 17.
Sometimes a Great Notion: The Story of a Family Who Would Never Give an
Inch Chapter 18. Wilfrid Sheed's Office Politics: A Lesson about
Organizational Conflict Chapter 19. The Franchiser: Stanley Elkin's Tale of
a Man Who Wanted to Costume the Country Chapter 20. Glengarry Glen Ross: A
David Mamet Word Play Chapter 21. Wall Street: Oliver Stone's Zero-Sum
Vision of Capitalism Chapter 22. Tucker: The Man and His Dream Chapter 23.
David Lodge's Nice Work: A Tale of Two Cultures Chapter 24. Other People's
Money: A Tale of Capitalism and Creative Destruction Chapter 25: Wall
Street: Money Never Sleeps Conclusion