America on Film

America on Film

Author: Harry M. Benshoff

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons

Published: 2011-08-26

Total Pages: 472

ISBN-13: 144435759X

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America on Film: Representing Race, Class, Gender, and Sexuality in the Movies, 2nd Edition is a lively introduction to issues of diversity as represented within the American cinema. Provides a comprehensive overview of the industrial, socio-cultural, and aesthetic factors that contribute to cinematic representations of race, class, gender, and sexuality Includes over 100 illustrations, glossary of key terms, questions for discussion, and lists for further reading/viewing Includes new case studies of a number of films, including Crash, Brokeback Mountain, and Quinceañera


New Hollywood and Countercultural Whiteness

New Hollywood and Countercultural Whiteness

Author: Till Kadritzke

Publisher:

Published: 2024-12-02

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9783111425689

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In the late 1960s, the white counterculture enters the screens with Bonnie and Clyde and Easy Rider; in 1976, a backlash seems to have taken place with white male protagonists such as Travis Bickle, Howard Beale, and Rocky Balboa being surrounded by non-white and female others. But these films cannot be neatly identified as left-wing or right-wing, liberal or conservative; in their politics of affect, they rather express important affinities. This study proposes the New Hollywood as an entry point into a cultural history of the postwar era sensitive to the intersections of affect, race, and gender. Following a narrative that spreads from the immediate postwar years to the 1970s, the study examines how New Hollywood films were part of a discursive and affective reconfiguration of white masculinity: the emergence of a subject position of countercultural whiteness and its affective style of expressivity. Examining affective affinities between films of the era complicates the narrative of polarization that shapes commentary on the history of American politics, emphasizing instead the shared racialized and gendered politics of the white counterculture and those reactionary forces that allegedly lashed back against it.


American Hippies

American Hippies

Author: W. J. Rorabaugh

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2015-06-17

Total Pages: 249

ISBN-13: 1107049237

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This short overview of the United States hippie social movement examines hippie beliefs and practices.


Staging Whiteness

Staging Whiteness

Author: Mary F. Brewer

Publisher: Wesleyan University Press

Published: 2005-07-29

Total Pages: 260

ISBN-13: 9780819567703

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How whiteness is portrayed in contemporary drama and enacted in everyday life.


Paradox of Plenty

Paradox of Plenty

Author: Harvey A. Levenstein

Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA

Published: 1994

Total Pages: 362

ISBN-13: 0195089189

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Annotation Offering a sweeping social history of food and eating in America, Harvey Levenstein explores the economic, political, and cultural factors that have shaped the American diet from 1930 to the present. He begins with the Great Depression, describing the breadlines, slim-down diets, and the waveof "vitamania" which swept the nation before World War II, and goes on to discuss wartime food rationing and the attempts of Margaret Mead and other social scientists to change American eating habits. He examines the postwar "Golden Age of American Food Processing," led by Duncan Hines and otherindustry leaders, and the disillusionment of the 1960s, when Americans rediscovered hunger and attacked food processors for denutrifying the food supply. Finally he discusses our contemporary eating habits--the national obsession with dieting, cholesterolphobia, "natural" foods, demographics offast-food chains, and the expanding role of food processors as a source of nutritional information. Both colorful and informative, this chronicle of American eating habits offers a window for viewing a land blessed with an abundance of food and a national diet marked by stark contrast andparadox.


Counterculture

Counterculture

Author: Duane Sheriff

Publisher: Destiny Image Publishers

Published: 2022-09-20

Total Pages: 193

ISBN-13: 1680319558

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God has called YOU to be an agent of cultural change! America is experiencing a cultural revolution. Against the onslaught of conflicting political agendas, powerful media pressures, and radical ideologies, what should Christians think? How should we respond? In Counterculture, Pastor Duane Sheriff reveals how the "woke" movement has a form of godliness but denies the power of the cross. Instead of aligning with the dominant cultural trends, believers must rise up and forge a Kingdom culture, countering critical race theory with "critical grace theory" — the truth and power of the gospel. Counterculture offers insight and guidance, equipping you to... Ground yourself in moral absolutes: righteousness, love, decency, and justice Get on your knees; then stand up and speak out in loving opposition Refuse to let the Church be silenced by political correctness, government, or media Uproot dark seeds of Socialism and Marxism being sown in America Recognize that the saving power of Jesus is the only thing that can transform our nation God has called you as an agent of change! And change happens one heart at a time, one good deed at a time, and one vote at a time. Begin now!


Imperiled Whiteness

Imperiled Whiteness

Author: Penelope Ingram

Publisher: Univ. Press of Mississippi

Published: 2023-06-23

Total Pages: 276

ISBN-13: 149684551X

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In Imperiled Whiteness, Penelope Ingram examines the role played by media in the resurgence of white nationalism and neo-Nazi movements in the Obama-to-Trump era. As politicians on the right stoked anxieties about whites “losing ground” and “being left behind,” media platforms turned whiteness into a commodity that was packaged and disseminated to a white populace. Reading popular film and television franchises (Planet of the Apes, Star Trek, and The Walking Dead) through political flashpoints, such as debates over immigration reform, gun control, and Black Lives Matter protests, Ingram reveals how media cultivated feelings of white vulnerability and loss among white consumers. By exploring the convergence of entertainment, news, and social media in a digital networked environment, Ingram demonstrates how media’s renewed attention to “imperiled whiteness” enabled and sanctioned the return of overt white supremacy exhibited by alt-right groups in the “Unite the Right” rally in Charlottesville in 2017 and the Capitol riots in 2021.


Extra-Ordinary Men

Extra-Ordinary Men

Author: Nicola Rehling

Publisher: Lexington Books

Published: 2010-06-21

Total Pages: 293

ISBN-13: 1461633427

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Extra-Ordinary Men analyzes popular cinematic representations of white heterosexual masculinity as the 'ordinary' form of male identity, one that enjoys considerable economic, social, political, and representational strength. Nicola Rehling argues that while this normative position affords white heterosexual masculinity ideological and political dominance, such 'ordinariness' also engenders the anxiety that it is a depthless, vacuous, and unstable identity. At a time when the neutrality of white heterosexual masculinity has been challenged by identity politics, this insightful volume offers lucid accounts of contemporary theoretical debates on masculinity in popular cinema, and explores the strategies deployed in popular films to reassert white heterosexual male hegemony through detailed readings of films as diverse as Fight Club, Boys Don't Cry, and The Matrix. Accessible to undergraduates, but also of interest to film scholars, the book makes a distinctive contribution to our understanding of the ways in which popular film helps construct and maintain many unexamined assumptions about masculinity, gender, race, and sexuality.


Second Lives

Second Lives

Author: Michael Szalay

Publisher: University of Chicago Press

Published: 2023

Total Pages: 331

ISBN-13: 0226824802

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"We hear everywhere that we are in a golden era of television. Prestige dramas are the stars of streaming services and cable networks alike, luring viewers into binge watching hours of programming with writing, production values, and acting talent typically associated with feature-length films. In Second Lives, Michael Szalay focuses our attention on a highly influential subset of prestige television that he calls the black-market drama, and he tethers the new renaissance of television to this genre. The black-market drama is a genre that was inaugurated by the HBO series The Sopranos. At its most basic level, it consists of shows in which part or all of a (usually) white, middle-class family leads two lives, one routine and the other typically illegal and dangerous. Those lives might involve black markets or money laundering, a secret past or closeted identity, addiction, prostitution, espionage, or an alternate reality. And those secret lives might be kept from a variety of people, from other family members to neighbors to the state. What matters is that second lives allow characters to awaken from the slumber of their first lives. We, the audience, awaken too. For Szalay, these black-market dramas are the key to understanding how TV, once the lowest of the low, came to be esteemed as never before"--