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| Acknowledgements. How To Use This Book | |
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| American Film and Culture | |
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| Introduction to the Study of Film Form and Representation:Film Form | |
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| American Ideologies: Discrimination and Resistance | |
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| Culture and Cultural Studies | |
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| Case Study: The Lion King (1994) | |
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| Questions for Discussion | |
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| For Further Reading | |
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| The Structure and History of Hollywood Filmmaking:Hollywood vs. Independent Film | |
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| The Style of Hollywood Cinema | |
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| The Business of Hollywood | |
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| The History of Hollywood: The Movies Begin | |
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| The Classical Hollywood Cinema | |
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| World War II and Postwar Film | |
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| "New " Hollywood and the Blockbuster | |
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| Mentality | |
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| Questions for Discussion | |
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| Race and Ethnicity and American Film:Introduction to Part Two: What is Race? | |
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| American Film and the Concept of Whiteness:Seeing White.Bleaching the Green: The Irish in American Cinema | |
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| Looking for Respect: The Italian in American Cinema | |
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| A Special Case: Jews and Hollywood | |
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| Case Study: The Jazz Singer (1927) | |
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| Questions for Discussion | |
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| African Americans and American Film:African Americans in Early Film | |
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| Blacks in Classical Hollywood Cinema | |
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| World War II and the Postwar Social Problem Film | |
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| The Rise and Fall of Blaxploitation Filmmaking | |
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| Sidebar: Blacks on TV | |
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| 1980s Hollywood and the Arrival of Spike Lee | |
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| Black Independent Film vs. "Neo-Blaxploitation " Today | |
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| Case Study: Bamboozled (2000) | |
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| Questions for Discussion | |
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| Native Americans and American Film:The American "Indian " Before Film | |
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| Ethnographic Films and the | |
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| Rise of the Hollywood Western | |
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| The Evolving Western | |
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| A Kinder, Gentler America? Case Study: Smoke Signals (1998) | |
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| Questions for Discussion | |
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| Asian Americans and American Film:Silent Film and Asian Images | |
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| Asians in Classical Hollywood Cinema | |
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| WWII and After: War Films, Miscegenation Melodramas, and Kung Fu | |
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| Asian American Actors and Filmmakers Today | |
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| Case Study: Eat a Bowl of Tea (1989) | |
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| Questions for Discussion | |
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| Latinos and American Film:The Greaser and the Latin Lover: Alternating Stereotypes | |
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| WW2 and After: The Good Neighbor Policy | |
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| The 1950s to the 1970s: Back to Business as Usual?Expanding Opportunities in Recent | |
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| Decades.Case Study: My Family Familia (1995) | |
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| Questions for Discussion | |
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| Class and American Film:Introduction to Part Three: What is Class? | |
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| Classical Hollywood Cinema and Class:Setting the Stage: The Industrial Revolution | |
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| Early Cinema: The Rise of the Horatio Alger Myth | |
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| Hollywood and Unionization | |
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| Class in the Classical | |
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| Hollywood Cinema.Case Study: The Grapes of Wrath (1940) | |
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| Conclusion: Re-cloaking Class Consciousness | |
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| Questions for Discussion | |
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| Cinematic Class Struggle After the Depression:From World War II to the Red | |
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| Scare.From Opulence to Counterculture | |
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| New Hollywood and the Resurrection of the Horatio Alger Myth | |
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| Case Study: Bulworth (1998) | |
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| Conclusions: Corporate Hollywood and Labor Today | |
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| Sidebar: Class on Television.Questions for Discussion | |
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| Gender and American Film:Introduction to Part Four: What is Gender? | |
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| Women in Classical Hollywood Filmmaking:Images of Women in Early Cinema | |
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| Early Female Filmmakers.Images of Women in 1930s Classical Hollywood | |
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| World War II and After | |
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| Case Study: All That Heaven Allows (1955) | |
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| Questions for Discussion | |
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| Exploring the Visual Parameters of Women in Film:Ways of Seeing | |
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| "Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema " | |
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| Case Study: Gilda (1946) | |
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| Conclusion: Complicating Mulvey 's Arguments | |
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| Questions for Discussion | |
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| Masculinity in Classical Hollywood Filmmaking:Masculinity and Early Cinema | |
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| Masculinity and the Male Movie Star.World War II and Film Noir | |
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| Case Study: Dead Reckoning (1947) | |
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| Masculinity in 1950s American Film | |
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| Questions for Discussion | |
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| Gender in American Film Since the 1960s:S | |