Film and TV Production: The Future of Multimedia

Begin The Corporation a film that explores the nature and spectacular rise of the dominant institution of our time.  What do you know about this creation? 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?" 

Due as indicated in the work for the week, but after we have seen The Corporation, on a separate sheet of paper in essay format answer the following questions as you elaborate and agree or disagree with the thesis that “we (humanity) has created a race of amoral immortal monsters in the form of corporations whose only goal is to make profit and grow larger:”

q     Describe the personality of a corporation.

q     Describe the life expectancy of the legal persons known as corporations.

q     Identify the concept of Corporate Social Responsibility and the role of government in oversight of corporate behavior.

q     You may elaborate on any of the following concepts:   Business benefits- Human resources- Risk management- Brand differentiation- License to operate- Disputed business motives- Self-interest- Hindrance of free trade- Ethical consumerism- Globalization and market forces- Social awareness and education- Ethics training- Government laws and regulation- Crises and their consequences.

q     Lastly conclude with your personal answer to the question "have we created a race of immortal monsters?"

q     Cite evidence from the documentary as you define the status of a corporation as a “Legal Person." 

q     Address the role of media in oversight of corporate behavior—What is the effect of new technology?

q     Incorporate the following definitions and explanations in your essay.

Over the course of this year we have been studying the concept of Frankenstein’s Monster and what that term has come to mean today—

Frank·en·stein  (frngkn-stn) n.   See the definitions below:

1.       Traditionally, Frankenstein is the name of the (the creator) - the scientist who was the protagonist in a gothic novel by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley; he created a monster from parts of corpses through his good intentions (his dream to overcome mortality) and technology.

In contemporary popular fiction, on Broadway, literarily, and on screen, Frankenstein’s Monster is a bit more complex:

2. Any agency or creation that slips from the control of and ultimately destroys its creator (e.g. "How can we keep the government we create from becoming a Frankenstein that will destroy the very freedom we establish it to protect?" Milton Friedman and “How can our dreams become Monsters? Easy, when we become our dreams—our old selves are destroyed.”  J. Galanaugh

3. A monster having the appearance of a man – of course the term monster is evolved today to include visions of Sesame Street in and Monsters Inc.  Yet in the beginning monster was only used to describe physical deformities, but when we reach the middle of the 16th century it came to incorporate an additional meaning --A person of inhuman and horrible cruelty or wickedness; a monstrous example of wickedness, or some particular vice.  So then, we can understand it as a thing that is not human and perpetrating harm.   

See work for the week for the due date!!!!!!!!!!!!!