ABSTRACT
This chapter reviews research about corporate crime and visual representation of phenomena. It offers an analysis of four critically acclaimed films depicting corporate wrongdoing. Wolf of Wall Street (2013) and Margin Call (2011) are Hollywood-type films. Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room (2005) and Inside Job (2010) are documentary films that depict actual misconduct in a specific firm or more broadly in the financial sector. Next, the chapter presents a methodology, explaining our choice of the films and how the analysis proceeds. It then discusses the implications of a visual analysis for understanding corporate crime. The chapter argues that a feminist gendered organizational approach is relevant in viewing films about corporate crime because, as noted, the protagonists usually are men, but more importantly, contemporary corporate cultures are male-dominated in ways that associate valued work performance with aggressive, competitive, and toxic forms of manhood. It concludes by acknowledging scholars whose research informed the work.
