Hollywood's Exploited Public Pedagogy, Corporate Movies, and Cultural Crisis

by Van Heertum, Richard; Nocella, Anthony J. , II; Frymer, Benjamin; Kashani, Tony; Grossberg, Lawrence

• ISBN13: 9780230621992
• ISBN10: 0230621996
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2010-11-15
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Summary

This book provides an interdisciplinary and collaborative anthology that seeks to make a compelling and exciting analysis of contemporary Hollywood film texts (and the larger industry and society to which they are dialectically related) in light of Giroux's ideas about public pedagogy. Foreword by Lawrence Grossberg

Author Biography

Anthony J. Nocella, II is completing his doctoral work at Syracuse University. He is a Visiting Scholar of SUNY Cortland's Center for Ethics, Peace and Social Justice (CEPS) and is teaching classes in Sociology and Criminology at Le Moyne College. Richard Van Heertum is Assistant Professor of education at CUNY/College of Staten Island, teaching classes in the education and history departments. Benjamin Frymer is Assistant Professor of Sociology at Sonoma State University and Director of Project Censored. Tony Kashani is Associate Professor of Film & Media Studies at College of San Mateo and Adjunct faculty member at Kaplan University, where he teaches Ethics.

Table of Contents

Foreword--Lawrence Grossberg * Preface--Toby Miller * Introduction--Benjamin Frymer, Tony Kashani, Anthony J. Nocella, II and Richard Van Heertum * PART I: HOLLYWOOD & IDEOLOGY * The Imperial System in Media Culture--Carl Boggs * Hollywood and the Working Class Hero: Diamonds in the Mean Streets of Boston--Richard Van Heertum * Hollywood’s Missionary Agenda: Christonormativity and Audience Baptism--Shirley R. Steinberg * Hollywood Incarcerated and on Death Row: Bjork, Schwarzenegger and the Pedagogy of Retribution * Richard Van Heertum * PART II: HOLLYWOOD RE-PRESENTS THE OTHER * From Ms. J. to Ms. G.: Analyzing Racial Microaggressions in Hollywood’s Urban School Genre--Tara J. Yosso and David Gumaro García * Hollywood’s Cinema of Ableism: A Disability Studies Perspective on the Hollywood Industrial Complex * Tony Kashani and Anthony J. Nocella, II * International Citizenry in the Age of the Spectacle--Shoba Sharad Rajgopal * LGBT-Themed Hollywood Cinema after Brokeback Mountain: Renegotiating Hegemonic Representations of Gay Men--Michael A. Raffanti * PART III: HOLLYWOOD AGES * Modes of Youth Exploitation in the Cinema of Larry Clark--Douglas Kellner * 16 and Pregnant: Media Mommy Tracking and Hollywood’s Exploitation of Teen Pregnancy--Caroline K. Kaltefleiter * About Schmidt and About the Hollywood Image of an Aging Actor--Karen E. Riggs * PART IV: HOLLYWOOD BEYOND THE HUMAN * Ecological Connections and Contradictions: Penguins, Robots and Humans in Hollywood's 'Nature' Films--Salma Monani and Andrew Hageman * Hollywood and Nonhuman Animals: Problematic Ethics of Corporate Cinema--Tony Kashani