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The Work of Film in the Age of Fordist Mechanization
- Cinema Journal
- University of Texas Press
- Volume 51, Number 3, Spring 2012
- pp. 25-51
- 10.1353/cj.2012.0042
- Article
- Additional Information
This article describes and analyzes the Ford Motor Company's extensive use of film in the 1910s and 1920s, tracing out the ways that this connected to the company's elaboration of new mass production processes and corresponding strategies of worker control that together were central to the establishment of the political economy of advanced capitalism.