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| Author: | Panayiotou, A. |
| Title: | Macho managers and organizational heroes: competing masculinities in popular films |
| Journal: | Organization
2010 : NOV, VOL. 17:6, p. 659-683 |
| Index terms: | organizations film industry management managers gender |
| Language: | eng |
| Abstract: | This article analyses how masculinity is constructed in the cinematic workplace of popular films, focusing on the characters of managers and the reciprocal relationship between management and gender. Using a performative-practice approach, the article focuses on the actions of gender in the films chosen and shows that organizations in film are a testing ground for differing forms of masculinity; in fact, one type, the organizational hero, may offer a type of resistance to predominant cultural paradigms, so that Hollywood films present both a propagation of dominant patriarchal discourses and a space for challenging these discourses. |
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