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1  Cover

2  Title Page

3  Copyright Page

4  Preface to the Third Edition

5  Acknowledgments

6  How to use this Book

7  About the Companion Website

8  Part I: CULTURE AND AMERICAN FILM Chapter 1: INTRODUCTION TO THE STUDY OF FILM FORM AND REPRESENTATION Film Form American Ideologies: Discrimination and Resistance Culture and Cultural Studies Questions for Discussion Further Reading Chapter 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 21^st‐Century Convergence Culture Questions for Discussion Further Reading Further Screening

9  Part II: RACE AND ETHNICITY AND AMERICAN FILM Chapter 3: THE CONCEPT OF WHITENESS AND AMERICAN FILM Seeing White Bleaching the Green: The Irish in American Cinema Looking for Respect: Italians in American Cinema A Special Case: Jews and Hollywood Veiled and Reviled: Arabs on Film in America Conclusion: Whiteness and American Film Today Questions for Discussion Further Reading Further Screening Chapter 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 Hollywood in the 1980s and the Arrival of Spike Lee Black Independent vs. “Neo‐Blaxploitation” Filmmaking in the 1990s African Americans and the Oscars The Twenty‐first Century: Smaller Films, Bigger Profits? Conclusion Questions for Discussion Further Reading Further Screening Chapter 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? Conclusion: Twenty‐first Century Indians? Questions for Discussion Further Reading Further Screening Chapter 6: ASIAN AMERICANS AND AMERICAN FILM Silent Film and Asian Images Asians in Classical Hollywood Cinema World War II and After: War Films, Miscegenation Melodramas, Kung Fu, and the Start of Asian American Independent Filmmaking Towards a Global Hollywood: Asian American Actors and Filmmakers of the Last Thirty Years Further Reading Further Screening Chapter 7: LATINOS AND AMERICAN FILM The Greaser and the Latin Lover: Alternating Stereotypes World War II and After: The Good Neighbor Policy The 1950s to the 1970s: Back to Business as Usual? Expanding Opportunities in the 1980s and 1990s Latino Film in the 21st Century Conclusion: Which Way Forward? Questions for Discussion Further Reading Further Screening

10  Part III: CLASS AND AMERICAN FILM Chapter 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 Conclusion: Recloaking Class Consciousness Questions for Discussion Further Reading Further Screening Chapter 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 Corporate Hollywood and Labor in the 21^st Century Questions for Discussion Further Reading Further Screening

11  Part IV: GENDER AND AMERICAN FILM Chapter 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 Questions for Discussion Further Reading Further Screening Chapter 11: EXPLORING THE VISUAL PARAMETERS OF WOMEN IN FILM “Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema” Conclusion: Complicating Mulvey’s Arguments Questions for Discussion Further Reading Further Screening Chapter 12: MASCULINITY IN CLASSICAL HOLLYWOOD FILMMAKING Masculinity and Early Cinema Masculinity and the Male Movie Star World War II and Film Noir Masculinity in 1950s American Film Questions for Discussion Further Reading Further Screening Chapter 13: GENDER IN AMERICAN FILM SINCE THE 1960s Second Wave Feminism and Hollywood Into the 1980s: A Backlash against Women? A New Generation of Female Filmmakers Gender at the Turn of the Century Gender Politics after 9/11 Further Reading Further Screening

12  Part V: SEXUALITY AND AMERICAN FILM Chapter 14: HETEROSEXUALITY, HOMOSEXUALITY, AND CLASSICAL HOLLYWOOD (Hetero)Sexuality on Screen (Homo)Sexuality in Early Film Censoring Sexuality during the Classical Hollywood Era Postwar Sexualities and the Weakening of the Production Code Camp and the Underground Cinema Questions for Discussion Further Reading Further Screening Chapter 15: SEXUALITIES ON FILM SINCE THE SEXUAL REVOLUTION Hollywood and the Sexual Revolution Film and Gay Culture from Stonewall to AIDS The AIDS Crisis Queer Theory and New Queer Cinema Hollywood Responds to New Queer Cinema (Hetero)Sexualities in Contemporary American Cinema Conclusion: The Power Dynamics of Sexuality Questions for Discussion Further Reading Further Screening

13  Part VI: ABILITY AND AMERICAN FILM Chapter 16: CINEMATIC IMAGES OF (DIS)ABILITY Disabled People in Early American Film: Curiosities and Freaks Romanticizing Disability in Classical Hollywood Melodramas Disability in War Movies and Social Problem Films Disability and the Counterculture After the 1980s: A More Enlightened Hollywood? Far From Hollywood: Documentary, Activism, and New Modes of Television Questions for Discussion Further Reading Further Screening

14  Glossary

15  Index

16  End User License Agreement