This book looks at the ways in which American identity shapes and is shaped by motion pictures. Movies serve not only as texts that document who we think we are or were, but they also reflect changes in our self-imaged, tracing the transformation from one kind of America to another.
This book looks at the ways in which American identity shapes and is shaped by motion pictures. Movies serve not only as texts that document who we think we are or were, but they also reflect changes in our self-imaged, tracing the transformation from one kind of America to another.
Introduction Mass Culture, the Individual, and the Mass Apocalyptic Cinema: D. W. Griffith and the Aesthetics of Reform The Crowd, the Collective, and the Chorus: Busby Berkeley and the New Deal The Regulation of Desire: From Mass Consumption to Mass Morality The Carole Lombard in Macy's Window The Economy of Desire: The Commodity Form in/of the Cinema The Production Code The Dark Side of Mass Culture: Film Noir Notes on Film Noir Woman's Place: The Absent Family of Film Noir Mass Production, the Failure of the New, and Reaganite Cinema Postmodernism and Consumer Society Papering the Cracks: Fantasy and Ideology in the Reagan Era Against the Grain New U.S. Black Cinema The Oppositional Gaze: Black Female Spectators Select Bibliography Contributors Index
Introduction Mass Culture, the Individual, and the Mass Apocalyptic Cinema: D. W. Griffith and the Aesthetics of Reform The Crowd, the Collective, and the Chorus: Busby Berkeley and the New Deal The Regulation of Desire: From Mass Consumption to Mass Morality The Carole Lombard in Macy's Window The Economy of Desire: The Commodity Form in/of the Cinema The Production Code The Dark Side of Mass Culture: Film Noir Notes on Film Noir Woman's Place: The Absent Family of Film Noir Mass Production, the Failure of the New, and Reaganite Cinema Postmodernism and Consumer Society Papering the Cracks: Fantasy and Ideology in the Reagan Era Against the Grain New U.S. Black Cinema The Oppositional Gaze: Black Female Spectators Select Bibliography Contributors Index
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