Dream Catchers: "Margin Call," "Boss," and Climbing the Beanstalk

Autor/in	Beck, Bernard
Titel	Dream Catchers: "Margin Call," "Boss," and Climbing the Beanstalk
Quelle	In: Multicultural Perspectives, 14 (2012) 3, S.152-155 (4 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1521-0960
DOI	10.1080/15210960.2012.696998
Schlagwörter	Stellungnahme; Popular Culture; Democratic Values; Films; Organizations (Groups); Ethics; Efficiency; Social Mobility; Moral Values + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Popkultur; Film; Ethik; Effectiveness; Effektivität; Wirkungsgrad; Soziale Mobilität; Moral value; Ethischer Wert
Abstract	Two recent popular entertainments, "Margin Call" (Barnum, Dodson, Jenckes, Moosa, Quinto & Chandor, 2011) and "Boss" (Safinia, 2011), depict powerful and successful groups of bosses confronting sudden, extreme threats. They are forced to react quickly and sacrifice important values to achieve survival of their organizations. In these emergencies, caused by their own failures, handled with ruthless efficiency, there are no characters exemplifying the upward mobility offered by the American Dream, as conveyed by the children's movie "Jack and the Beanstalk" (DePew, Goupil & Tunnicliffe, 2010). The pop culture advertisement of "the dream," which was so common in American movies, is not presented as part of such grim stories. (As Provided).
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