Bulletin N° 694
Subject: An
invitation to the Grenoble campus screening of “The Corporation” on Thursday,
April 14, 2016.
11
April 2016
Grenoble, France
Dear
Colleagues and Friends of CEIMSA,
We
are pleased to invite you to watch with us Canadian filmmaker Mark Achbar’s 2003 award-winning documentary, “The Corporation,”
which will be followed by an open discussion on “corporate order and modes for
working-class democracy which can promote a new ‘social contract’.”
Sincerely,
Francis
Feeley
Professor of
American Studies
University of
Grenoble-3
Director of Research
University of
Paris-Nanterre
Center for the
Advanced Study of American Institutions and Social Movements
The University of
California-San Diego
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CEIMSA,
Center for the
Advanced Study of American Institutions and Social Movements,
VOUS PRESENTE
Le film documentaire :
The Corporation
(V.O.)
Mark Achbar, producer
LE JEUDI, 14 AVRIL 2016
à
17h30
dans
La Grande Salle des Colloques
à
L’Université
Stendhal
Grenoble
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THE CORPORATION explores
the nature and spectacular rise of the dominant institution of 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 it?"
Provoking, witty, sweepingly informative, The Corporation 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.
Winner of
24 INTERNATIONAL AWARDS, 10 of them AUDIENCE CHOICE AWARDS including the
AUDIENCE AWARD for DOCUMENTARY in WORLD CINEMA at the 2004 SUNDANCE FILM
FESTIVAL.
This film is based on the book The Corporation: The Pathological Pursuit of Profit and Power
by Joel Bakan.