Acknowledgements.How To Use This Book.Part I: American Film and Culture:.1. Introduction to the Study of Film Form and Representation:.Film Form.American Ideologies: Discrimination and Resistance.Culture and Cultural Studies.
Case Study: The Lion King (1994).Questions for Discussion.For Further Reading.2. The Structure and History of Hollywood Filmmaking:.Hollywood vs. Independent Film.The Style of Hollywood Cinema.
The Business of Hollywood.The History of Hollywood: The Movies Begin.The Classical Hollywood Cinema.World War II and Postwar Film."New" Hollywood and the Blockbuster Mentality.Questions for Discussion.For Further Reading/Screening.Part II: Race and Ethnicity and American Film:.
Introduction to Part Two: What is Race'.3. American Film and the Concept of Whiteness:.Seeing White.Bleaching the Green: The Irish in American Cinema.Looking for Respect: The Italian in American Cinema.A Special Case: Jews and Hollywood.Case Study: The Jazz Singer (1927).
Questions for Discussion.For Further Reading/Screening.4. African Americans and American Film:.African Americans in Early Film.Blacks in Classical Hollywood Cinema.World War II and the Postwar Social Problem Film.The Rise and Fall of Blaxploitation Filmmaking.
Sidebar: Blacks on TV.1980s Hollywood and the Arrival of Spike Lee.Black Independent Film vs. "Neo-Blaxploitation" Today.Case Study: Bamboozled (2000).Questions for Discussion.For Further Reading/Screening.5.
Native Americans and American Film:.The American "Indian" Before Film.Ethnographic Films and the Rise of the Hollywood Western.The Evolving Western.A Kinder, Gentler America'.Case Study: Smoke Signals (1998).Questions for Discussion.For Further Reading/Screening.
6. Asian Americans and American Film:.Silent Film and Asian Images.Asians in Classical Hollywood Cinema.WWII and After: War Films, Miscegenation Melodramas, and Kung Fu.Asian American Actors and Filmmakers Today.Case Study: Eat a Bowl of Tea (1989).Questions for Discussion.
For Further Reading/Screening.7. Latinos and American Film:.The Greaser and the Latin Lover: Alternating Stereotypes.WW2 and After: The Good Neighbor Policy.The 1950s to the 1970s: Back to Business as Usual'.Expanding Opportunities in Recent Decades.Case Study: My Family Familia (1995).
Questions for Discussion.For Further Reading/Screening.Part III: Class and American Film:.Introduction to Part Three: What is Class'.8. Classical Hollywood Cinema and Class:.Setting the Stage: The Industrial Revolution.Early Cinema: The Rise of the Horatio Alger Myth.
Hollywood and Unionization.Class in the Classical Hollywood Cinema.Case Study: The Grapes of Wrath (1940).Conclusion: Re-cloaking Class Consciousness.Questions for Discussion.For Further Reading/Screening.9. Cinematic Class Struggle After the Depression:.
From World War II to the Red Scare.From Opulence to Counterculture.New Hollywood and the Resurrection of the Horatio Alger Myth.Case Study: Bulworth (1998).Conclusions: Corporate Hollywood and Labor Today.Sidebar: Class on Television.Questions for Discussion.For Further Reading/Screening.
Part IV: Gender and American Film:.Introduction to Part Four: What is Gender'.10. Women in Classical Hollywood Filmmaking:.Images of Women in Early Cinema.Early Female Filmmakers.Images of Women in 1930s Classical Hollywood.World War II and After.
Case Study: All That Heaven Allows (1955).Questions for Discussion.For Further Reading/Screening.11. Exploring the Visual Parameters of Women in Film:.Ways of Seeing."Visual Pleasure and.