James J. Dowd

Social Life in the Movies

How Hollywood Imagines War, Schools, Romance, Aging, and Social Inequality

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Through an analysis of hundreds of Hollywood movies, this book examines some of the most contentious social issues of our time, including racism, social inequality, sexism, and gerontophobia. With studies of some of the most enduring film genres in Hollywood's history, including romantic films such as Casablanca, war movies from World War II through the Iraq and Afghanistan conflicts, alienation films, including Five Easy Pieces and Lost in Translation, the school movie, from Goodbye, Mr. Chips to other films set in academia, including Dead Poets Society and Dangerous Minds, the book outlines and demonstrates the sociological approach to view… Mehr

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Produktdetails

ISBN: 978-1-00-020841-2
EAN: 9781000208412
Produktnummer: 34132329
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2020
Seitenangabe: 196 S.
Plattform: PDF
Masse: 20'952 KB
Auflage: 1. Auflage
Abbildungen: 13 schwarz-weiße Tabellen

Über den Autor

James J. Dowd is Professor Emeritus in the Department of Sociology at the University of Georgia, USA. He is the author of Stratification Among the Aged and the co-author of The Primary Group: Its Rediscovery in Contemporary Sociology.