Soured on the system
Subtitle: disaffected men in 20th century American film
By: Robert T. Schultz
Publisher: McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Jefferson, N.C
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780786469918
Subjects: Alienation (Social psychology) in motion pictures; Motion pictures; Men in motion pictures; History
Description: "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"--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Preface; title: Introduction: the roots and early cultural representations of discontented and disaffected men, 1853-1945; title: Negotiating corporate life: adapting to the organized system in the 1940s and 1950s; title: Gunslingers and gangsters in the age of corporate combinations: the veiled struggle against the force that is evil in Joe McCarthy's America; title: Similar criticisms, dissimilar solutions: the 1960s and 1970s; title: Blowing up and dropping out: awakenings, agency and militancy at the end of the century; title: Conclusion: disaffected men and resistance in American culture.