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| Foreword | |
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| Preface | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Sociological Theory | |
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| Sitting in the Dark with Max: Classical Sociological Theory Through Film | |
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| Decoding Modern Society: The Matrix Trilogy and the Realm of Alienation | |
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| Outtake: Lights, Camera, Theory: Picturing Hollywood Through Multiple Sociological Lenses | |
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| Social Class | |
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| Understanding Social Mobility Through the Movies | |
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| Class in the Classroom: Hollywood's Distorted View of Inequality | |
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| Outtake: Social Class in America and People Like Us | |
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| Race and Ethnicity | |
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| The Spectacle of Black Violence as Cinema | |
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| Don't Worry, We Are All Racists! Crash and the Politics of Privatization | |
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| Latinos/as Through the Lens | |
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| Outtake: Pocahontas and Intersectionality: A Sociologist Reflects | |
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| Gender and Sexuality | |
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| The Masculinity of the Governator: Muscle and Compassion in American Politics | |
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| Constructing Empowered Women: Cinematic Images of Power and Powerful Women | |
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| Working the Boundaries: Bisexuality and Transgender on Film | |
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| Outtake: The Geena Davis Institute on Gender in Media | |
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| Public and Private Social Worlds | |
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| Service, Smiles, and Selves: Film Representations of Labor and the Sociology of Work | |
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| Reel Families: The Delicate Balance of Family and Work in Film | |
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| Outtake: Seeing the Emotional Dimensions of Work and Family Life | |
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| Deviance, Crime, and Law | |
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| The Caped Crusader: What Batman Films Tell Us about Crime and Deviance | |
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| Crime, Film and Criminology | |
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| The Hero, the Law, and the People in Between: Models of the Legal System in Hollywood Films | |
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| Outtake: Corporate Crime and The Informant! | |
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| Sociology and the Life Course | |
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| "Look Out, New World, Here We Come"? Race, Racialization, and Sexuality in Four Children's Animated Films | |
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| First Comes the Baby Carriage? Nonnormative Transitions to Parenthood in Film | |
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| Battles and Balloons: Old Manhood in Film | |
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| Outtake: Growth of the Nonlinear Life Trajectory | |
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| Social Institutions | |
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| Seeing Religion Sociologically Through Film | |
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| Sport as Social Institution: Football Films and the American Dream | |
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| In Sickness and in Health: Medical Sociology Through Celluloid Stories | |
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| The 1991 Iraq Invasion in Cinematic Perspective: Jarhead and Three Kings | |
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| Outtake: Zombie Apocalypse: Understanding the Perceptions of Health versus Nonhealth | |
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| Global Connections | |
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| Dirty Pretty Things: Migration, the State, and the Contexts of Survival in the Global City | |
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| Slumdog or Millionaire-May I Phone a Friend? Neoliberalism and Globalizing the American Dream | |
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| Outtake: Arabs and Muslims in Hollywood's Munich and Syriana | |
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| Social Change | |
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| From Earth to Cosmos: Environmental Sociology and Images of the Future in Science Fiction Film | |
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| The Only Possible Solution? The Challenge of Nonviolence to the Hegemony of Violence in Film | |
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| "We Will No Longer Sit Quietly": Social Movements Through Film | |
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| Outtake: Excerpt from "Thoughts … on the Spirit of Activism in Film" | |
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| Film Index for Teaching Sociology | |
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| Photo Credits | |
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| About the Editors | |
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| About the Contributors | |