Format:
x, 228 p.
Edition:
Online-Ausg. 2011 Available via World Wide Web
ISBN:
9780786469918
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9780786493326
Content:
"This work analyzes popular films produced in the years of significant historical change from 1946 to the end of the twentieth century. Disaffected male characters represent traditional values of independent thought and action as they negotiate life in the "organized system" (corporate life and the consumer culture) increasingly demanding dependence and conformity, which they resist"--
Content:
Includes bibliographical references and index
Content:
This work analyzes popular films produced in the years of significant historical change from 1946 to the end of the twentieth century. Although the American middle class expanded significantly with the economic prosperity that followed World War II, postwar films often depict middle-class men as discontented with the mundane nature of work and with declining autonomy in an increasingly corporate-bureaucratic society. Disaffected male characters represent traditional values of independent thought and action as they negotiate life in the "organized system" (corporate life and the consu
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Description based upon print version of record
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Schultz_6991-8_Cover; Table of Contents; Acknowledgments; Preface; Introduction; 1. Negotiating Corporate Life: Adapting to the Organized System; 2. Gunslingers and Gangsters in the Age of Corporate Combinations: The Veiled Struggle Against the Force That Is Evil in Joe McCarthy's America; 3. Similar Criticisms, Dissimilar Solutions: The 1960s and 1970s; 4. Blowing Up and Dropping Out: Awakenings, Agency and Militancy at the End of the Century; Conclusion: Disaffected Men and Resistance in American Culture; Chapter Notes; Bibliography; Index;
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the roots and early cultural representations of discontented and disaffected men, 1853-1945 -- Negotiating corporate life: adapting to the organized system in the 1940s and 1950s -- Gunslingers and gangsters in the age of corporate combinations: the veiled struggle against the force that is evil in Joe McCarthy's America -- Similar criticisms, dissimilar solutions: the 1960s and 1970s -- Blowing up and dropping out: awakenings, agency and militancy at the end of the century -- Conclusion: disaffected men and resistance in American culture
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Additional Edition:
9780786469918
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Print version Soured on the System : Disaffected Men in 20th Century American Film
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English
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