America on Film: Representing Race, Class, Gender, and Sexuality in the Movies, 2nd Edition is a lively introduction to issues of diversity as represented within the American cinema. * Provides a comprehensive overview of the industrial, socio-cultural, and aesthetic factors that contribute to cinematic representations of race, class, gender, and sexuality * Includes over 100 illustrations, glossary of key terms, questions for discussion, and lists for further reading/viewing * Includes new case studies of a number of films, including Crash, Brokeback Mountain, and Quinceanera
| Limba | Engleza |
| Cuprins | Acknowledgments. How to Use This Book. Part I: Culture and American Film:. 1. Introduction to the Study of Film Form and Representation. Film Form. American Ideologies: Discrimination and Resistance. Culture and Cultural Studies. Case Study: The Lion King (1994). Questions for Discussion. Further Reading. 2. The Structure and History of Hollywood Filmmaking. Hollywood vs. Independent Film. The Style of Hollywood Cinema. The Business of Hollywood. The History of Hollywood: The Movies Begin. The Classical Hollywood Cinema. World War II and Postwar Film. 'New' Hollywood and the Blockbuster Mentality. Questions for Discussion. Further Reading. Further Screening. Part II: Race and Ethnicity and American Film:. Introduction to Part II: What is Race?. 3. The Concept of Whiteness and American Film. Seeing White. Bleaching the Green: The Irish in American Cinema. Looking for Respect: Italians in American Cinema. A Special Case: Jews and Hollywood. Case Study: The Jazz Singer (1927). Veiled and Reviled: Arabs on Film i |
| Data Publicarii | 2 January 09 |
| Format | Paperback |
| Paginare | 472 |
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