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ISBN 10: 0292796528 

ISBN 13: 9780292796522

Author: Jack Boozer

Achieving the American Dream became inextricably linked with career/business success after World War II, as an increasingly consumerist America learned to define the dream through possessions and status. Not surprisingly, Hollywood films in the postwar years reflected the country’s preoccupation with work and career success, offering both dramatic and comedic visions of the career quest and its effects on personal fulfillment, family relations, women’s roles, and the creation (or destruction) of just and caring communities.

In this book, 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 movie—the 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.

Career Movies American Business and the Success Mystique 1st Table of contents:

Chapter 1. The Classical Corporate Executive Film
Executive Promotion and Family Allegiance
Corporate Nationalism
Shoring Up the New Male Bureaucrat
Beyond the Corporate-Family Equation
Chapter 2. The Emergence of the Career Woman
From Shamed Working Moms in Noir and Classical Melodrama to Embarrassed Ones in Comedy
The 1970s and After: Transitional Consciousness Gives Way to Clones, Comedic Supermoms, and Competitive Saboteurs
Consumerism’s Legacy of Narcissism and Displacement
Chapter 3. The Entrepreneurial Impulse
Surveying the Agony and Ecstasy of Ownership
Immigrant and Racial Issues in Family Businesses
Entrepreneurial Femmes Fatales in the Film Noir Tradition
Eroticized Success Mastery and Repetition Compulsion
Chapter 4. Huckster Foreplay: The Promotion Industry
From Early Cinema Hucksters to Corporate Media Demagogues
Directing Desire in the Postwar Classical Film
Evident Resistance in the Transitional Era
The Entrepreneurialization of Employment and Other Promotional Realities in the 1980s and 1990s
Chapter 5. Working in American Televirtuality
From Network TV to Cultic Space and Cultural Metaphor
The Drive to Virtuality in Production and Consumption
Reception and Simulational Identity in Cyberspace

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