FT Essential Guide to Negotiations by Geof Cox

FT Essential Guide to Negotiations by Geof Cox

Sinister, swaggering, yet often sympathetic, the figure of the gangster has stolen and murdered its way into the hearts of American cinema audiences. Despite the enduring popularity of the gangster film, however, traditional criticism has focused almost entirely on a few canonical movies such as Little Caesar, Public Enemy, and The Godfather trilogy, resulting in a limited and distorted understanding of this diverse and changing genre.

Mob Culture offers a long-awaited, fresh look at the American gangster film, exposing its hidden histories from the Black Hand gangs of the early twentieth century to The Sopranos. Departing from traditional approaches that have typically focused on the nature of the gangster, the editors have collected essays that engage the larger question of how the meaning of criminality has changed over time. Grouped into three thematic sections, the essays examine gangster films through the lens of social, gender, and racial/ethnic issues.

Destined to become a classroom favorite, Mob Culture is an indispensable reference for future work in the genre.

Geof Cox has worked as both a line manager and HR manager in the oil industry, where he was required to negotiate with others, whether as a commercial negotiator in Sales or Purchasing, as a Project Manager on major projects work or as an HR Manager, taking part in local wage negotiations with trade unions. Following on from this, he set up my own international management and organisation development company - New Directions Ltd - in 1986. As an international consultant, he has taught negotiation, influencing and conflict management to audiences in the public and private sectors, both large and small.