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This book is a resource for teaching US history using social problem films-"message movies"-as illustrations and tools for student engagement. In addition to covering key themes and concepts, this book provides an overview of significant issues, a tutorial for using film in history classes, user guides for thinking about social problems on screen, and sample exercises and assignments for classroom use.

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This book is a resource for teaching US history using social problem films-"message movies"-as illustrations and tools for student engagement. In addition to covering key themes and concepts, this book provides an overview of significant issues, a tutorial for using film in history classes, user guides for thinking about social problems on screen, and sample exercises and assignments for classroom use.
Autorenporträt
Jennifer Frost teaches and researches Hollywood, film, and 20th century US domestic politics and social history at the University of Auckland, New Zealand. Her books include Hedda Hopper's Hollywood: Celebrity Gossip and American Conservatism (2011) and Producer of Controversy: Stanley Kramer, Hollywood Liberalism, and the Cold War (2017). Steven Alan Carr is Professor and Chair of Communication and directs the Institute for Holocaust and Genocide Studies at Purdue University Fort Wayne. He is the author of Hollywood and Anti-Semitism: A Cultural History Up to World War II (2001).