Permanent Link: https://blogs.babson.edu/leadership/2012/10/31/professor-julie-levinson-discusses-her-book-the-american-success-myth-on-film/
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…
