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"Greed Is Good" and Other Fables Tony Osborne

"Greed Is Good" and Other Fables By Tony Osborne

"Greed Is Good" and Other Fables by Tony Osborne


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This book spans three centuries of popular entertainment and everyday culture, showcasing both mainstream and submerged channels and voices to examine how once reviled business values gained supremacy and poisoned the American spirit.

"Greed Is Good" and Other Fables Summary

"Greed Is Good" and Other Fables: Office Life in Popular Culture by Tony Osborne

This book spans three centuries of popular entertainment and everyday culture, showcasing both mainstream and submerged channels and voices to examine how once reviled business values gained supremacy and poisoned the American spirit. The office in popular culture is often depicted as a topsy-turvy parallel universe where psychological disorders are legitimized as "managerial styles" and comically depraved bosses torment those who do the actual work. During the 1950s, the Beats chose denim and the open road over gray flannel suits and office jobs, but today their grandchildrenGeneration Yaggressively covet desk jobs. "Greed Is Good" and Other Fables: Office Life in Popular Culture examines how office life is both extolled and lampooned in popular culture. The book tracks how business values ascended to cultural dominance in the United States today, revealing our incessant struggle between financial and spiritual goals in the pursuit of "freedom" and the fulfillment of the American dream. By drawing upon sources as varied as books, newspapers, magazines, television shows, movies, blogs, message boards, documentaries, public speeches, corporate training films, and employee newsletters, the author provides compelling insights into the range of competing values and ideals interwoven throughout office life.

"Greed Is Good" and Other Fables Reviews

Overall this books draws on a distinct variety of sourcesbooks, public speeches, magazines, blogs, documentaries, corporate training films, and moreto articulate the range of competing values interlaced throughout office life within popular culture. . . . The book is well designed for courses in any discipline that focus on the rhetoric of popular culture as well as those that solely focus on communication and popular culture. * Communication Research Trends *
'Greed Is Good' and Other Fables is an entertaining exploration of popular culture's depiction of the workplace, from Charles Dickens's The Pickwick Papers to the TV series Mad Men. . . . Summing Up: Recommended. * Choice *

About Tony Osborne

Tony Osborne, PhD, teaches courses in rhetoric, leadership, and mass communication at Gonzaga University, Spokane, WA, and writes and speaks about popular culture. He has worked as an investigative reporter and feature writer for a daily newspaper, an account executive and speech writer for AT&T Communications, and an independent business consultant and trainer.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1. The Great American Dilemma: Conformity or Rebellion? Chapter 2. My Approach and Some Reflections on Pop Culture and Such Chapter 3. Early Mass Culture: Print from the Victorian Era to the Roaring Twenties Chapter 4. Sponsored Films: Quaintness with a Radical Bite Chapter 5. The Organization Man and His Kin: Preachers and Salesmen Chapter 6. The Office in Drama and Comedy during the 1950s and 1960s Chapter 7. Greed Is Good: The 1980s to Present-Day America Chapter 8. Scaling the Pyramid: Common Types and Office Games Epilogue Notes Bibliography Index

Additional information

NPB9780313385759
9780313385759
0313385750
"Greed Is Good" and Other Fables: Office Life in Popular Culture by Tony Osborne
New
Hardback
Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
2012-04-13
216
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