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America on Film : Representing Race, Class, Gender, and Sexuality at the Movies
by Benshoff, Harry M.; Griffin, SeanEdition:
2nd
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9781405170550
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1405170557
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Pub. Date:
1/20/2009
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Wiley-Blackwell
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Summary
America on Film: Representing Race, Class, Gender, and Sexuality in the Movies 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 Quincea_era
Author Biography
Sean Griffin is Associate Professor of Cinema and Television at Southern Methodist University.
Harry M. Benshoff is Associate Professor of Radio, Television, and Film at the University of North Texas.
Harry M. Benshoff is Associate Professor of Radio, Television, and Film at the University of North Texas.
Table of Contents
| Acknowledgments | |
| How to Use This Book | |
| Culture and American Film | |
| 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 | |
| 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 | |
| G+ NewG+ Hollywood and the Blockbuster Mentality | |
| Questions for Discussion | |
| Further Reading | |
| Further Screening | |
| Race and Ethnicity and American Film: | |
| Introduction to Part II What is Race? | |
| 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 in America | |
| Conclusion: Whiteness and American Film Today | |
| Questions for Discussion | |
| Further Reading | |
| Further Screening | |
| African Americans and American Film | |
| African Americans in Early Film | |
| Blacks in Classical Hollywood Cinema | |
| World War II and the Postwar Social Problem Film | |
| The Rise and Fall of Blaxploitation Filmmaking | |
| Box: Blacks on TV | |
| Hollywood in the 1980s and the Arrival of Spike Lee | |
| Black Independent vs | |
| "Neo-Blaxploitation" Filmmaking | |
| New Images for a New Century - Or Not? | |
| Case Study: Bamboozled (2000) | |
| Questions for Discussion | |
| Further Reading | |
| Further Screening | |
| Native Americans and American Film | |
| The American "Indian" Before Film | |
| Ethnographic Films and the Rise of the Hollywood Western | |
| The Evolving Western | |
| A Kinder, Gentler America? | |
| Case Study: Smoke Signals (1998) | |
| Conclusion: Twenty-First-Century Indians? | |
| Questions for Discussion | |
| Further Reading | |
| Further Screening | |
| Asian Americans and American Film | |
| Silent Film and Asian Images | |
| Asians in Classical Hollywood Cinema | |
| World War II and After: War Films, Miscegenation Melodramas, and Kung Fu | |
| Contemporary Asian American Actors and Filmmakers | |
| Case Study: Eat a Bowl of Tea (1989) | |
| Questions for Discussion | |
| Further Reading | |
| Further Screening | |
| Latinos and American Film | |
| The Greaser and the Latin Lover: Alternating Stereotypes | |
| World War II and After: The Good Neighbor Policy | |
| The 1950s to the 1970s: Back to Business as Usual? | |
| Expanding Opportunities in Recent Decades | |
| Conclusion: A Backlash Against Chicanos? | |
| Case Study: My Family/Mi Familia (1995) | |
| Questions for Discussion | |
| Further Reading | |
| Further Screening | |
| Class and American Film: | |
| Introduction to Part III What is Class? | |
| Classical Hollywood Cinema and Class | |
| Setting the Stage: T | |
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