1st Edition

Corporate Wrongdoing on Film The ‘Public Be Damned’

By Kenneth Dowler, Daniel Antonowicz Copyright 2022
210 Pages
by Routledge

210 Pages
by Routledge

210 Pages
by Routledge

Corporate Wrongdoing on Film: The ‘Public Be Damned’ provides a unique and ground-breaking analysis of corporate wrongdoing depictions, identifying, describing, and categorizing harms perpetrated by corporations. The book provides a history of corporate wrongdoing in film, from the silent film to the present day. Early films are summarized and discussed within the historical, social and... Read more

1. An Introduction

2. History of Corporate Harm on Film, 1930s to 1970s

3. Harm to the Environment

4. Harm to Workers

5. Harm to Consumers

6. Harm to the Economy

7. The Social Construction of Corporate Harms

Index

Biography

Kenneth Dowler is Associate Professor in the Department of Criminology at Wilfrid Laurier University, Canada. He enjoys teaching courses on Crime, Deviance and Sport, and has developed and taught several groundbreaking courses at Laurier's Brantford campus, such as Mean Justice, Outlaw Bikers, International Organized Crime, and Gangsters, Goodfellas and Wiseguys.

Daniel Antonowicz is Associate Professor in the Department of Criminology at Wilfrid Laurier University, Canada. Prior to joining Laurier, he was an assistant professor in the Department of Criminology at the University of Ottawa. The main focus of his research is corporate crime.