Original PDF Ebook – America on Film3rd EditionRepresenting Race, Class, Gender, and Sexuality at the Movies – 9781118743652

Original PDF Ebook – America on Film3rd EditionRepresenting Race, Class, Gender, and Sexuality at the Movies – 9781118743652

A comprehensive and insightful examination of the representation of diverse viewpoints and perspectives in American cinema throughout the 20th and 21st centuries_x000D_
America on Film: Representing Race, Class, Gender and Sexuality at the Movies, now in its third edition, is an authoritative and lively examination of diversity issues within American cinema. Celebrated authors and academics Harry M. Benshoff and Sean Griffin provide readers with a comprehensive discussion and overview of the industrial, socio-cultural, and aesthetic factors that contribute to cinematic representations of race, class, gender, sexuality, and ability._x000D_
The book incorporates several different theoretical perspectives, including film genre, auteurism, cultural studies, Orientalism, the “male gaze,” feminism, and queer theory. The authors examine each selected subject via representative films, figures, and movements. Each chapter also includes an in-depth analysis of a single film to illuminate and inform its discussion of the chosen topic._x000D_
America on Film fearlessly approaches and tackles several controversial areas of representation in film, including the portrayal of both masculinity and femininity in film and African- and Asian-Americans in film. It devotes the entirety of Part V to an analysis of the depiction of sex and sexuality in American film, with a particular emphasis on the portrayal of homosexuality. Topics covered include:_x000D_
The structure and history of American filmmaking, including a discussion of the evolution of the business of Hollywood cinema_x000D_
African Americans and American film, with a discussion of BlacKkKlansman informing its examination of broader issues_x000D_
Asian, Latin/x, and Native Americans on film_x000D_
Classical Hollywood cinema and class, with an in-depth examination of The Florida Project_x000D_
Women in classical Hollywood filmmaking, including a discussion of the 1955 film, All that Heaven Allows