Turn to Film: Film in the Business School

Turn to Film: Film in the Business School offers creative and powerful uses of film in the business school classroom and surveys the pedagogical and performative value of watching films with students. This volume examines not only how film offers opportunities for learning and investigation, but also how they can be sources of ideological poison, self-delusion and mis-representation. Throughout the text, renowned contributors embrace film’s power to embark on new adventures of thought by inventing images and signs, and by bringing novel concepts and fresh perspectives to the classroom. If film often reveals organizational dysfunctionality and absurdity, it also teaches us to understand the other, to see difference, and to accept experimentation. A wide spectra of films are examined for their pedagogical value in terms of what can be learned, explored and discussed by teaching with film and how film can be used as a tool of research and investigation. The book sees film in the classroom as an educational challenge wherein rich learning and personal development are encouraged.

Hugo Letiche, PhD (1984), Free University Amsterdam, is Professor at The University of Leicester School of Business and Professeur invité at Institut Mines-Télécom, Paris. He has written extensively about philosophy, art, pedagogy and the ethnography of organization.

Jean-Luc Moriceau, PhD (1997), Paris Dauphine, is Professor at Institut Mines-Télécom Business School, Paris. His current research centres on the turn-to-affect and performance as research form.