| Description |
xx, 168 pages ; 24 cm |
| Series |
Contributions to the study of popular culture ; no. 38 |
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Contributions to the study of popular culture ; no. 38
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| Contents |
Introduction / Robert Brent Toplin -- 1. Film as Politics/Film as Business: The Blaxploitation of the Plantation / Edward D. C. Campbell, Jr. -- 2. A Popular Culture Prophecy: Black American Slavery in Film / William L. Van Deburg -- 3. Hollywood Views the Mexican-American: From The Greaser's Revenge to The Milagro Beanfield War / Allen L. Woll -- 4. Them and Us: Immigration as Societal Barometer and Social Educator in American Film / Carlos E. Cortes -- 5. Hollywood's Harlots, 1900-1930: Fallen Women and the American Dream Machine / Leslie Fishbein -- 6. The "Foreign Policy of Hollywood": Interventionist Sentiment in the American Film, 1938-1941 / James J. Lorence -- 7. Hollywood and the Cold War, 1945-1961 / Daniel J. Leab -- 8. Hollywood Laughs at the Cold War, 1947-1961 / John H. Lenihan |
| Analysis |
Cinema Films (Motion pictures) Sociology |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Minorities in motion pictures.
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Motion pictures -- Social aspects -- United States.
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Outsiders in motion pictures.
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Villains in motion pictures.
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| Author |
Toplin, Robert Brent, 1940-
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| LC no. |
93000227 |
| ISBN |
0313288844 |
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