taylorism
5 films tagged with “taylorism”
Office Space
The TPS report entered the language because it names something with no other name: work whose only consumer is the process that requested it. Peter's error is not omitting the report but omitting the cover sheet for the…
Brazil
A fly falls into a teleprinter and a letter is struck wrong. Archibald Tuttle, heating engineer, becomes Archibald Buttle, cobbler. Armed men come through the ceiling of the Buttle flat at Christmas, bag the father in fr…
Playtime
To film a city that does not work for the people inside it, Tati built one. Tativille rose on waste ground outside Paris: glass office blocks on rails so they could be repositioned between shots, streets, traffic lights,…
Modern Times
The opening title of Modern Times announces a story of industry, of individual enterprise, humanity crusading in the pursuit of happiness, and then cuts to sheep being herded through a gate and workers emerging from a su…
Metropolis
Metropolis is the first film to take a management theory and build it as architecture. The city is stacked: intellect on top, hands underneath, and a hundred metres of rock in between so that neither has to look at the o…