Deconstructing the manager
Discourses of Power and Resistance in Popular Cinema
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6058185 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Alexia Panayiotou (0000-0001-6351-4883, University of Cyprus, corresponding author) |
| Editors | Olivia Kyriakidou (0009-0009-5540-9747) |
| Year | 2011 |
| Volume | 31 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 10-26 |
| Publication date | 2011-12-30 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Equal Opportunities International (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1758-7093 • E-ISSN: 2040-7149 |
| Publisher | Emerald (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1108/02610151211199191 |
| OpenAlex | W2019876206 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
| References cited | 22 |
Purpose This article aims to explore how mainstream popular cinema, usually a vehicle of effortless and accessible entertainment, produces or reproduces prevailing discursive constructs about managers, management and corporate firms and provides a cultural reading of organizations. Using a post-structuralist framework, it seeks to deconstruct the representations of managers in several popular films. It aims to propose that the analysis of this representation allows complex questions about the nature of power in organizations and the “opportunity costs” of resistance to be addressed
Aesthetics · Art · Entertainment · Mainstream · Media studies · Movie theater · Political science · Politics · Popular culture · Public relations · Sociology · Visual arts · Cinema and Media Studies · Cultural Industries and Urban Development · Law · Management and Organizational Studies
Narrating the Organization
Management Lives
Course in General Linguistics
Metaphors We Live By
Telling Organizational Tales
Discipline and Punish
Foucault, Power and Organizations
‘Macho’ managers and organizational heroes
Writing Responsibly
Images of Organizing in Popular Culture
From ‘the Woman's’ Point of View
Visual methodologies
Practising Gender at Work
Said and Done' Versus 'Saying and Doing
Utopia in Popular Management Writing and the Music of Bruce Springsteen
| Citations per year | 0.21 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2012 - 2026 (15) |
| Highly cited | No |