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Synopsis. The documentary shows the development of the contemporary business corporation, from a legal entity that originated as a government-chartered institution meant to affect specific public functions, to the rise of the modern commercial institution entitled to most of the legal rights of a person. The documentary concentrates mostly upon ...
Apr 15, 2013 · The documentary is based on a book written by Joel Bakan titled The Corporation: The Pathological Pursuit of Profit and Power, and is made by the team comprising Mark Achbar and Jennifer Abbott. As the title of the book suggests, business corporations are all too often guilty of pursuing profits over the interests of people and the environment.
Jul 16, 2004 · Roger Ebert July 16, 2004. Tweet. A bar code serves as a symbol to a protester at the Summit of the Americas, held in Quebec in 2001, in the impassioned documentary "The Corporation." Now streaming on: Powered by JustWatch. Land agent: "It ain't anybody. It's a company." -- The Grapes of Wrath.
In this complex, exhaustive and highly entertaining documentary, Mark Achbar, co-director of the influential and inventive Manufacturing Consent: Noam Chomsky and the Media, teams up with co-director Jennifer Abbott and writer Joel Bakan to examine the far-reaching repercussions of the corporation’s increasing preeminence.
2004 S&P Award Winner. The Corporation. Directed by Jennifer Abbott, Mark Achbar. A bold, creative, and prophetic critique of a beast that has grown too powerful and too dangerous to ignore any longer. Film Review by Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat. The power of large, publicly-traded corporations is awesome and deeply troubling.
Directed by Mark Achbar and Jennifer Abbott; Written by Joel Bakan; Produced by Big Picture Media Corp., 2004) Reviewed by Pratima Bansal, Tom Ewart, and Merrilyn Earl. The Corporation is a thought-provoking documentary that presents a controversial and well-informed discussion of the positive and negative influence of corporations in today’s ...
Welcome to the online study guide for The Corporation, the award-winning documentary by Mark Achbar, Jennifer Abbott, and Joel Bakan. The Corporation engages us in a darkly amusing account of the institution’s birth as a legal “person” whose prime directive is to produce ever-increasing profit for its shareholders regardless of the cost ...
