John Hassard / Ruth Holliday (eds.)

Organization-Representation

Work and Organization in Popular Culture
Herausgeber: Hassard, John; Holliday, Ruth

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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 supposedly describe and consequently help shape contemporary realities. This volume offers rich insights into the relations between culture, power and work. It goes beyond such purely ontological questions to show convincingly that a critical analysis of the relationship between popular culture and the nature of organizational life enhances our understanding of both.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Sage Publications
• Seitenzahl: 288
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. Juni 1998
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 160mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 590g
• ISBN-13: 9780761953913
• ISBN-10: 0761953914
• Artikelnr.: 37041765

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction - John Hassard and Ruth Holliday PART ONE: REALISM AND REPRESENTATION The Documentary Film Movement - Ian Aitken The Post Office Touches All Branches of Life Representing Reality - John Hassard Cinema Verit[ac]e The Cultural Representation of Trade Unions - Peter Stead PART TWO: SEX AND VIOLENCE What Is Wrong with This Picture? Sex and Gender Relations in >Philadelphia - Ruth Holliday Aids, Organization, Representation Saloon Girls - Maggie O
Neill Death and Desire in the American West PART THREE: MEN AND SUPERMEN Child
s Play - Christopher Grey Representations of Organization in Children
s Literature Management Gurus - Norman Jackson and Pippa Carter What Are We To Make of Them? Fictional Money (Or, Greed Isn
t So Good in the 1990s) - Linda McDowell Masculinity and Madness - Rolland Munro PART FOUR: ORGANIZATIONAL FUTURES Cyberorganization - Martin Parker and Robert Cooper Cinema as Nervous System Computers and Representation - Warren Smith Organization in the Virtual World The Medium as Message - J Martin Corbett Sublime Technologies and Future Organization in Science Fiction Film, 1970-95

Rezensionen

`This is a unique, fascinating and valuable treatment of material and issues which have been ignored in 'mainstream' organisation studies. Read this and you will never again watch an episode of Casualty, The Bill or Silent Witness without boring your companion with critical commentary on the portrayal of hierarchy, sex role stereotyping, power relations, the role of authority figures and dysfunctional rules' - Human Resource Management Journal `This worthwhile collection gathers together a series of essays dealing with the representation of social organizations in the popular media...The quality of analysis in all the contributions to this volume is consistently high, and the material covered is extensive. The book will prove useful on media/cultural studies courses as well as those concentrating on the sociology of organizations' - European Journal of Communication