Who will take the Oscars this year? Professor Julie Levinson, Associate Professor of Film and Director of the Honors Program, makes her predictions: Best Picture: Argo Best Director: Steven Speilberg Best Actor: Daniel Day-Lewis Best Actress: Jennifer Lawrence Best Supporting Actor: Tommy Lee Jones Best Supporting Actress: Anne Hathaway Best Foreign Film: Amour Best Documentary: Searching for…
Babson Professor Julie Levinson discusses her new book, The American Success Myth on Film, during an interview with Peter Marx of Business Intelligence. The book explores myths set forth by films and how the myths relate to the notion of success and work in America.
From the 1920s to the present, success myth movies reveal profoundly conflicted attitudes toward success and work in America. Collectively, these movies are part of an ongoing cultural conversation about how we define success and what is sacrificed in its pursuit. Among the movies from the past decade that are discussed in The American Success…