Stephen Sharot

Love and Marriage Across Social Classes in American Cinema

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This book is the first comprehensive and systematic study of cross-class romance films throughout the history of American cinema. It provides vivid discussions of these romantic films, analyses their normative patterns and thematic concerns, traces how they were shaped by inequalities of gender and class in American society, and explains why they were especially popular from World War I through the roaring twenties and the Great Depression. In the vast majority of cross-class romance films the female is poor or from the working class, the male is wealthy or from the upper class, and the romance ends successfully in marriage or the promise of… Mehr

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Produktdetails

ISBN: 978-3-319-82432-1
EAN: 9783319824321
Produktnummer: 28480557
Verlag: Springer International Publishing
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2018
Seitenangabe: 296 S.
Masse: H21.0 cm x B14.8 cm x D1.6 cm 386 g
Auflage: Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2017
Abbildungen: Paperback
Gewicht: 386

Über den Autor

Stephen Sharot (D.Phil. Oxford) is Emeritus Professor of Sociology at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev. His research focuses on representations of class and their relationships to gender in popular cinema. He is the author of five books and numerous articles in the sociology of religion.