...Christopher J. Rees; John Hassard; Sharon Purchase; Sid Lowe; Nick Ellis Purpose An earlier researcher, Wood, proposed that cinema is the most appropriate metaphor for interpretation of contemporary life and organizations. The paper adopts the enthusiasm for the cinema metaphor and explores...

... offers a non‐mainstream argument inside the core of a mainstream management topic. Cinema Organizational change National cultures Shareholders Mergers and acquisitions Every night and every morn some to misery are born every morn and every night some are born to sweet delight some...

... into madness: into abject melancholia. Here is another twist, a further turn, a reversion. The logical Scotty has become the disordered Other. © MCB UP Limited 2002 Cinema Gender Theory The argument that follows is an attempt to examine the threat of disintegration, collapse...

.... In this paper, the theatre metaphor is used as a point of departure for the development of another dramaturgical metaphor: the cinema metaphor. It is suggested that the latter might provide a better perspective for studying contemporary organizations in the age of spectacle. But what does it mean, ultimately...