American Dream and Roger and Me
Documentary Film and the Power of Interrogation: "American Dream" &"Roger and Me" Author(s): Miles Orvell Reviewed work(s): Source: Film Quarterly, Vol. 48, No. 2 (Winter, 1994-1995), pp. 10-18 Published by: University of California Press Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/1213092 . Accessed: 09/12/2012 08:12
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Nonfiction films rarely reach beyond a devoted congregation, but in recent years two small, works in particular have realized a mass audienceBarbara Kopple's Academy Award-winning American Dream (1991) and Michael Moore's widely celebrated and controversial film, Roger and Me (1989). That they have gained this wide audience speaks first of all to the fact that both films deal with the fate of the worker at the hands of the modern corporation, a subject that has been the focus of public concern for more than a decade, inflected most recently by the predicaments of postindustrialism: Given the new order of global capitalism, what power can labor unions claim against management? and what
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Miles Orvell
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Roger and Me: Roger Smith, of Chairman GeneralMotors
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Nonfiction films rarely reach beyond a devoted congregation, but in recent years two small, works in particular have realized a mass audienceBarbara Kopple's Academy Award-winning American Dream (1991) and Michael Moore's widely celebrated and controversial film, Roger and Me (1989). That they have gained this wide audience speaks first of all to the fact that both films deal with the fate of the worker at the hands of the modern corporation, a subject that has been the focus of public concern for more than a decade, inflected most recently by the predicaments of postindustrialism: Given the new order of global capitalism, what power can labor unions claim against management? and what