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Title Statement America on Film [electronic resource] : Representing Race, Class, Gender, and Sexuality at the Movies
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Formatted Contents Note Cover; Title Page; Copyright; Acknowledgments; How to Use This Book; Part I: Culture and American Film; Chapter 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); Further Reading; Chapter 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 MentalityQuestions for Discussion; Further Reading; Further Screening; Part II: Race and Ethnicity and American Film; Chapter 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 in America; Conclusion: Whiteness and American Film Today; Questions for Discussion; Further Reading; Further Screening; Chapter 4: AFRICAN AMERICANS AND AMERICAN FILM African Americans in Early FilmBlacks 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; Chapter 5: 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; Chapter 6: 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; Chapter 7: LATINOS AND AMERICAN FILM; The Greaser and the Latin Lover: Alternating Stereotypes World War II and After: The Good Neighbor PolicyThe 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; Part III: Class and American Film; Chapter 8: CLASSICAL HOLLYWOOD CINEMA AND CLASS; Setting the Stage: The Industrial Revolution; Early Cinema: The Rise of the Horatio Alger Myth; Hollywood and Unionization; Class in the Classical Hollywood Cinema; Case Study: The Grapes of Wrath (1940) Conclusion: Recloaking Class Consciousness
Summary, etc 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 Quinceañera
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Additional Physical Form Entry Print version: Benshoff, Harry M. America on Film : Representing Race, Class, Gender, and Sexuality at the Movies Hoboken : Wiley,c2011 ISBN 9781405170550
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*5058 $a"New" Hollywood and the Blockbuster MentalityQuestions for Discussion; Further Reading; Further Screening; Part II: Race and Ethnicity and American Film; Chapter 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 in America; Conclusion: Whiteness and American Film Today; Questions for Discussion; Further Reading; Further Screening; Chapter 4: AFRICAN AMERICANS AND AMERICAN FILM
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*5058 $aA Kinder, Gentler America?Case Study: Smoke Signals (1998); Conclusion: Twenty-First-Century Indians?; Questions for Discussion; Further Reading; Further Screening; Chapter 6: 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; Chapter 7: LATINOS AND AMERICAN FILM; The Greaser and the Latin Lover: Alternating Stereotypes
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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 Quinceañera