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A 3 page essay that compares the book Corporation by Joel Bakan to the film of the same name. The writer feels that the book and movie make the same points, but that the book is more persuasive because it can include more detail. Bibliography lists 2 sources.
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that, if judged on human terms, would be considered totally amoral. In addition to the book, it is also a film of the same name by Mark Achbar, Jennifer
Abbott and Joel Bakan (Synopsis, The Corporation). Winner of 24 international film awards, the movie version of the book covers the same arguments as the book. The main difference between
the two mediums is one of presentation. The movie, as a visual medium, relies heavily on interviews, incorporating more than 40 into the film. The subjects interviewed are top-level
CEOs and executive from a range of industries. One of the most interesting aspects of the film is that it, as does the book, discusses the history of the corporation,
which is judged legally to be a "person," that is an entity in its own right. Taking this legal fabrication to its extreme, the film employs the diagnostic criteria used
by the World Health Organization and the DSM-IV, the standard diagnostic tool of psychiatry, and applies this checklist of symptoms to typical corporate behavior (Synopsis, The Corporation). According to this
"diagnosis," corporations, which are "self-interested, inherently amoral, callous and deceitful" fully qualifies for meeting the diagnostic criteria of psychopath (Synopsis, The Corporation). The book, naturally, covers much of the
same material, that is, the historical background to corporations, their basic operating motivation and specific case studies. However, it is simply inherent in the differences between these two forms of
media that a print source can naturally include a great deal more detail than a visual source. For this reason, the book makes the argument of corporate pathology better than
does the film. For example, the book can include more case studies in greater detail than can a film. One particularly revealing case study is that of Patricia Anderson
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