Career Movies: American Business and the Success Mystique

by Jack Boozer

Book Overview

Achieving the American Dream became inextricably linked with career/business success after World War II, as an increasingly consumerist America learned to define the dream through possessions and status. Not surprisingly, Hollywood films in the postwar years reflected the country's preoccupation with work and career success, offering both dramatic and comedic visions of the career quest and its effects on personal fulfillment, family relations,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0292709129
• ISBN13: 9780292709126
• Release Date: January 2003
• Publisher: University of Texas Press
• Length: 300 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.2"