Movies and Mass Culture

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Paperback | 1 February 1999 | Edition Number 1

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This text examines the two-way process of action and reaction by which films shape the identity of a society, its culture and its sense of nationhood; and, in turn, how films are themselves shaped by these forces and matrices. The nation here is America, in which films both effect and reflect changes in the national self-image, the transformation from one kind of nation to another: from an agrarian to an industrial economy; from a nation of producers to one of consumers; from a community of individuals to a mass society.

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Non-Fiction Society & Culture Cultural Studies Popular Culture Literature, Poetry & Plays History & Criticism of Literature General Literary Studies Media Studies Arts & Entertainment Film, TV & Radio Specific Films Film Theory & Criticism

Introduction	p. 1
Mass Culture, the Individual, and the Mass
Apocalyptic Cinema: D. W. Griffith and the Aesthetics of Reform	p. 25
The Crowd, the Collective, and the Chorus: Busby Berkeley and the New Deal	p. 59
The Regulation of Desire: From Mass Consumption to Mass Morality
The Carole Lombard in Macy's Window	p. 95
The Economy of Desire: The Commodity Form in/of the Cinema	p. 119
The Production Code	p. 135
The Dark Side of Mass Culture: Film Noir
Notes on Film Noir	p. 153
Woman's Place: The Absent Family of Film Noir	p. 171
Mass Production, the Failure of the New, and Reaganite Cinema
Postmodernism and Consumer Society	p. 185
Papering the Cracks: Fantasy and Ideology in the Reagan Era	p. 203
Against the Grain
New U.S. Black Cinema	p. 231
The Oppositional Gaze: Black Female Spectators	p. 247
Select Bibliography	p. 265
Contributors	p. 271
Index	p. 273
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