Book
America on film : representing race, class, gender, and sexuality at the movies
Record details
- ISBN: 1405170557 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- ISBN: 9781405170550 (pbk. : alk. paper)
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Physical Description:
xvii, 453 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
print - Edition: Second edition.
- Publisher: Malden, MA, USA : Wiley-Blackwell, 2009.
Content descriptions
| Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Formatted Contents Note: | pt. VI. Ability and American film -- Introduction to part VI : what is ability? -- 16. Cinematic images of (dis)ability -- Disabled people in early American film : curiosities and freaks -- Romanticizing disability in classical Hollywood melodramas -- Disability in war movies and social problem films -- Disability and the counterculture -- Case study : Children of a Lesser God (1986) -- A more enlightened age? -- Questions for discussion -- Further reading -- Further screening -- 17. Making connections -- Case study 1 : Queen Christina (1933) -- Case study 2 : The Old Maid (1939) -- Case study 3 : The Gang's All Here (1943) -- Case study 4 : A Patch of Blue (1965) -- Case study 5 : Erin Brockovich (2000) -- Case study 6 : 8 Mile (2002) -- Case study 7 : Better Luck Tomorrow (2002) -- Case study 8 : Saving Face (2004) -- Case study 9 : Crash (2004) -- Case study 10 : The Prize Winner of Defiance, Ohio (2005) -- Case study 11 : Brokeback Mountain (2005) -- Case study 12 : Quincea©łera (2006) -- Glossary -- Index. |
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| Subject: | Motion pictures United States History Minorities in motion pictures |
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