Cinematic Sociology

Social Life in Film
Herausgeber: Sutherland, Jean-Anne; Feltey, Kathryn M.

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Produktbeschreibung

This one-of-a-kind text takes encourages students to develop critical thinking and analytical skills by à â  seeingà â  films sociologically. Each essay uses one or more films to illustrate a key central topic such as social class, race and ethnicity, gender and so on.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: SAGE Publications Inc
• 2 Revised edition
• Seitenzahl: 496
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. Mai 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 254mm x 179mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 938g
• ISBN-13: 9781412992848
• ISBN-10: 1412992842
• Artikelnr.: 34761810

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter 1: Introduction - Jean-Anne Sutherland and Kathryn Feltey
Chapter 2: Theory
Sitting in the Dark with Max: Classical Sociological Theory Through Film -
Michael Kimmel
Decoding Modern Society: The Matrix Trilogy and the Realm of Alienation -
Harry Dahms
Outtake: Lights, Camera, Theory: Picturing Hollywood through Multiple
Sociological Lenses - Mark Rubinfeld
Chapter 3: Social Class
Understanding Social Mobility through the Movies - James J. Dowd
Class in the Classroom: Hollywood's Distorted View of Inequality - Robert
Bulman
Outtake: Social Class in America and People Like Us - Kathy Feltey
Chapter 4: Race & Ethnicity
The Spectacle of Black Violence as Cinema - Ed Guerrero
Don¿t Worry, We are all Racists!: Crash and the Politics of Privatization -
Henry A. Giroux and Susan Searls Giroux
Latinos/as Through the Lens - Carleen R. Basler
Outtake: Pocahontas and Intersectionality: A Sociologist Reflects - Teresa
Martinez
Chapter 5: Gender & Sexuality
The Masculinity of the Governator: Muscle and Compassion in American
Politics - Michael Messner
Constructing Empowered Women: Cinematic Images of Power, and Powerful Women
- Jean-Anne Sutherland
Boundary Work: Bisexuality and Transgender on Film - Betsy Lucal and Andrea
Miller
Outtake: Geena Davis Institute on Gender in Media - Jean-Anne Sutherland
Chapter 6: Public & Private Social Worlds
Service, Smiles and Selves: Representations of Labor and the Sociology of
Work - Karla Erickson
Reel Families: Family Life in Popular Film - Janet Cosbey
Outtake: Seeing the Emotional Dimensions of Work and Family Life - Rebecca
Erickson
Chapter 7: Deviance, Crime & Law
The Caped Crusader: What Batman Films Tell Us About Crime & Deviance -
Robert Wonser and David Boyns
Crime, Film and Criminology - Nicole Rafter
The Hero, the Law, and the People in Between: Models of the Legal System in
Hollywood Films - Valerie Callanan
Outtake: Corporate Crime and The Informant! - Mike Maume
Chapter 8: Life Course: Childhood, Adulthood & Old Age
"Look Out New World, Here We Come"? Race, Racialization, and Sexuality in
Four Children's Animated Films by Disney, Pixar, and DreamWorks - Carmen R.
Lugo-Lugo and Mary K. Bloodsworth-Lugo
First comes the Baby Carriage?: Non-Normative Transitions to Parenthood in
Film - Jeanne Holcomb
Battles & Balloons: Old Manhood in Film - Neal King
Outtake: Growth of the Nonlinear Life Trajectory - Erica Orange
Chapter 9: Social Institutions - Religion, Sports, Medical and War
Seeing Religion Sociologically Through Film - Sue Monahan
Sport as Social Institution: Football Films and the American Dream - Jeff
Montez de Oca
In Sickness and In Health: Medical Sociology through Celluloid Stories -
Bernice Pescosolido and Kathleen Oberlin
The 1991 Iraq Invasion in Cinematic Perspective: Jarhead and Three Kings -
Elizabeth E. Martinez
Outtake: Zombies Apocalypse: Understanding the Perceptions of Health vs.
Non-Health - Andrew Hund
Chapter 10: Global Connections
Dirty Pretty Things: The State, Global Migration and Survival in
Contemporary Cities - Roberto G. Gonzales
Slumdog or Millionaire-May I phone a Friend?: Neoliberalism and Globalizing
the American Dream - Alison Moss and Jerome Hendricks
Outtakes: Arabs in Film - Jack Shaheen
Chapter 11: Social Change - Technology, Collective Behavior & Social
Movements
From Earth to Cosmos: Environmental Sociology and Images of the Future in
Science Fiction Film - Christopher Podeschi
The Only Possible Solution?: The Challenge of Nonviolence to the Hegemony
of Violence in Film - Kathryn Feltey
'We Will No Longer Sit Quietly:' Social Movements through Film - Jeffrey A.
Langstraat
Outtakes: Thoughts on Activist Movies (Excerpt) - John Farr