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Career Movies: American Business and the Success Mystique
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Career Movies: American Business and the Success Mystique Hardcover - 2003

by Jack Boozer


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In this text, Jack Boozer argues that the career/business film achieved such variety and prominence in the years between 1945 and 2001 that it should be considered a legitimate film genre. Analyzing numerous well-known films from the entire period, he defines the genre as one in which a protagonist strives for career success that often proves to be either elusive despite hard work, or unfulfilling despite material rewards and status. Boozer also explores several distinct subgenres of the career moviethe corporate executive films of the 1950s; the career struggles of (single, married, and/or parenting) women; the entrepreneurial film as it is also embodied in texts about immigrants and racial and ethnic minorities and business-oriented femmes fatales; the explosion of promotionalism and the corporatization of employment; and, finally, the blurring of work and private life in the brave new world of the televirtuality film.

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  • Title Career Movies: American Business and the Success Mystique
  • Author Jack Boozer
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Edition 1st ed
  • Publisher University of Texas Press, Austin, TX
  • Date 2003-01
  • ISBN 9780292709119
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