In Mondovino Veritas? Politics of the Documentary Film for Critical Management Research

Véronique Perret and Stéphane Debenedetti
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Véronique Perret: DRM - Dauphine Recherches en Management - Université Paris Dauphine-PSL - PSL - Université Paris Sciences et Lettres - CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique
Stéphane Debenedetti: DRM - Dauphine Recherches en Management - Université Paris Dauphine-PSL - PSL - Université Paris Sciences et Lettres - CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique

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Abstract: Whether as a material or a method, the documentary film is increasingly used in management research. An analysis of the filmic device used in Mondovino – a film about the effects of globalization on the wine world – offers an opportunity to explore different politics at work in the documentary film. Based on the concept of politics as defined by Rancière, and the "critical device" of Caillet, we show that the documentary film is a valuable resource for both the cinephile researcher and the filmmaking researcher engaged in critical research. We ascribe three political dimensions to the documentary film: (i) through its filmic device, it operates as an intervention or performance that concretely changes reality within its scope of action (filmmaking), (ii) through its narrative, it builds a critical alternative that reconfigures our historical world (worldmaking), and (iii) through making the filmic device visible in the cinematographic narrative, it enables the viewer to relate the political act of filmmaking to the critical issues in the narrative (worldmaking in filmmaking).

Keywords: Film documentaire; dispositif filmique; méthode de recherche basée sur l’art; politique; études critiques en management; mondialisation culturelle; Documentary film; filmic device; art-based research method; politics; critical management studies; cultural globalization (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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Published in M@n@gement, 2022, 25 (1)

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