America on film : representing race, class, gender, and sexuality at the movies / Harry M. Benshoff and Sean Griffin.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Benshoff, Harry M., 1963-
Other Authors: Griffin, Sean
Language:English
Published: Malden, MA : Blackwell Pub., 2004.
Subjects:
Physical Description:xvi, 371 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm
Format: Book

MARC

LEADER 00000cam a2200000 a 4500
001 in00003712542
003 OCoLC
005 20220616142800.0
008 030304s2004 maua b 001 0 eng
010 |a  2003004935 
020 |a 063122582X (hbk. : alk. paper) 
020 |a 9780631225829 (hbk. : alk. paper) 
020 |a 0631225838 (pbk. : alk. paper) 
020 |a 9780631225836 (pbk. : alk. paper) 
035 |a (OCoLC)51837654 
040 |a DLC  |c DLC  |d BAKER  |d NLGGC  |d CRH  |d BTCTA  |d LVB  |d YDXCP  |d EEM  |d UtOrBLW 
043 |a n-us--- 
049 |a EEMR 
050 0 0 |a PN1995.9.M56  |b B46 2004 
082 0 0 |a 791.43/6520693  |2 21 
100 1 |a Benshoff, Harry M.,  |d 1963-  |0 http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n96075799 
245 1 0 |a America on film :  |b representing race, class, gender, and sexuality at the movies /  |c Harry M. Benshoff and Sean Griffin. 
260 |a Malden, MA :  |b Blackwell Pub.,  |c 2004. 
300 |a xvi, 371 pages :  |b illustrations ;  |c 26 cm 
336 |a text  |b txt  |2 rdacontent 
337 |a unmediated  |b n  |2 rdamedia 
338 |a volume  |b nc  |2 rdacarrier 
504 |a Includes bibliographical references and index. 
505 0 |a pt. 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 -- 
505 0 |a pt. 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 : the Italian in American cinema -- A special case : Jews and Hollywood -- Case study : The Jazz Singer (1927) -- Questions for discussion -- Further reading -- Further screening -- 4. 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 film vs. "neo-blaxploitation" today -- Case study : Bamboozled (2000) -- Questions for discussion -- Further reading -- Further screening -- 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) -- Questions for discussion -- Further reading -- Further screening -- 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 -- Asian American actors and filmmakers today -- Case study : Eat a Bowl of Tea (1989) -- Questions for discussion -- Further reading -- Further screening -- 7. 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 -- Case study : My Family/Mi Familia (1995) -- Questions for discussion -- Further reading -- Further screening -- 
505 0 |a pt. III. Class and American film -- Introduction to part III : what is class? -- 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 -- Questions for discussion -- Further reading -- Further screening -- 9. Cinematic class struggle after the depression -- From World War II to the Red Scare -- From opulence to counterculture -- New Hollywood and the resurrection of the Horatio Alger myth -- Case study : Bulworth (1998) -- Conclusion : corporate Hollywood and labor today -- Questions for discussion -- Further reading -- Further screening -- 
505 0 |a pt. IV. Gender and American film -- Introduction to part IV : what is gender? -- 10. Women in classical Hollywood filmmaking -- Images of women in early cinema -- Early female filmmakers -- Images of women in 1930s classical Hollywood -- World War II and after -- Case study : All That Heaven Allows (1955) -- Questions for discussion -- Further reading -- Further screening -- 11. Exploring the visual parameters of women in film -- Ways of seeing -- "Visual pleasure and narrative cinema" -- Case study : Gilda (1946) -- Conclusion : complicating Mulvey's arguments -- Questions for discussion -- Further reading -- Further screening -- 12. Masculinity in classical Hollywood filmmaking -- Masculinity and early cinema -- Masculinity and the male movie star -- World War II and film noir -- Case study : Dead Reckoning (1947) -- Conclusion : masculinity in 1950s American film -- Questions for discussion -- Further reading -- Further screening -- 13. Gender in American film since the 1960s -- Second wave feminism and Hollywood -- Into the 1980s : a backlash against women? -- A new generation of female filmmakers -- Case study : The Ballad of Little Jo (1993) -- Conclusion : gender at the turn of the millennium -- Questions for discussion -- Further reading -- Further screening -- 
505 0 |a pt. V. Sexuality and American film -- Introduction to part IV : what is sexuality? -- 14. Heterosexuality, homosexuality, and classical Hollywood -- (Hetero)sexuality on screen -- (Homo)sexuality in early film -- Censoring sexuality during the classical Hollywood era -- Postwar sexualities and the weakening of the production code -- Camp and the underground cinema -- Case study : The Celluloid Closet (1995) -- Questions for discussion -- Further reading -- Further screening -- 15. Sexualities on film since the sexual revolution -- Hollywood and the sexual revolution -- Film and gay culture from Stonewall to AIDS -- The AIDS crisis -- Queer theory and new queer cinema -- Case study : Go Fish (1995) -- Conclusions : Hollywood today -- Questions for discussion -- Further reading -- Further screening -- Glossary. 
650 0 |a Minorities in motion pictures.  |0 http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85085831 
650 0 |a Motion pictures  |z United States.  |0 http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85088112 
650 1 7 |a Films.  |2 gtt 
650 1 7 |a Etnisch bewustzijn.  |2 gtt 
650 1 7 |a Klassentegenstellingen.  |2 gtt 
650 1 7 |a Sekseverschillen.  |2 gtt 
650 1 7 |a Seksualiteit.  |2 gtt 
650 6 |a Minorités au cinéma. 
650 6 |a Cinéma  |z États-Unis. 
700 1 |a Griffin, Sean.  |0 http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n86060771 
907 |y .b5749387x  |b 170630  |c 080808 
998 |a mn  |b 080814  |c m  |d a   |e -  |f eng  |g mau  |h 0  |i 2 
994 |a C0  |b EEM 
999 f f |i becdc16b-2638-52f3-8971-175165670eab  |s 354331e4-9d71-55ac-b7ea-3b8b81a757c1  |t 0 
952 f f |p Can Circulate  |a Michigan State University-Library of Michigan  |b Michigan State University  |c MSU Main Library  |d MSU Main Library  |t 0  |e PN1995.9.M56 B46 2004  |h Library of Congress classification  |i Printed Material  |m 31293034182273  |n 1