The corporation

Title
The corporation

Summary
Explore the nature and spectacular rise of the dominant institution in our time. Footage from pop culture, advertising, TV news, and corporate propaganda illuminates the corporation's grip on our lives. Taking its legal status as a "person" to its logical conclusion, the film puts the corporation on the psychiatrist's couch to ask "What kind of person is ti?" Provoking, witty, sweepingly informative, the movie includes forty interviews with corporate insiders and critics - including Milton Friedman, Noam Chomsky, Naomi Klein, and Michael Moore, plus true confessions, case studies and strategies for change.

Year Published
2003
 
2005

Physical Description
2 DVDs-videos (ca. 8 h) : sd., col. ; 12 cm.

Edition
Special ed.

Note
Based on the book by Joel Bakan The corporation : the pathological pursuit of profit and power.

Contents
Disc 1: 145 mins theatrical version, deleted scenes, Q & A with filmmakers, interviews, and commentary tracks. Disc 2: 165 mins unseen interviews clips & updates, 30 mins. of related film resources, enhanced DVD-ROM features, weblinks.

Subject
Corporations.
 
Corporations -- Corrupt practices.
 
Corporations -- Moral and ethical aspects.
 
Corporate culture.
 
Corporate governance.

Added Author
Bakan, Joel. The corporation : the pathological pursuit of profit and power.
 
Achbar, Mark.
 
Abbott, Jennifer.
 
Simpson, Bart.
 
Bakan, Joel. Corporation.

Added Corporate Author
Mongrel Media.

Electronic Access
uhttp://www.thecorporation.com

Summary
Explore the nature and spectacular rise of the dominant institution in our time. Footage from pop culture, advertising, TV news, and corporate propaganda illuminates the corporation's grip on our lives. Taking its legal status as a "person" to its logical conclusion, the film puts the corporation on the psychiatrist's couch to ask "What kind of person is ti?" Provoking, witty, sweepingly informative, the movie includes forty interviews with corporate insiders and critics - including Milton Friedman, Noam Chomsky, Naomi Klein, and Michael Moore, plus true confessions, case studies and strategies for change.

Publisher
[Toronto] : Mongrel Media, 2003.


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Edmonton Christian HighTRC DVD 306.3 CORTeacher resource30905000071229Teacher Materials