Cinematic Sociology

Chapter 1: Introduction - Jean-Anne Sutherland and Kathryn Feltey Chapter 2: Theory Sitting in the Dark with Max: Classical Sociological Theory Through Film - Michael Kimmel Decoding Modern Society: The Matrix Trilogy and the Realm of Alienation - Harry Dahms Outtake: Lights, Camera, Theory: Picturing Hollywood through Multiple Sociological Lenses - Mark Rubinfeld Chapter 3: Social Class Understanding Social Mobility through the Movies - James J. Dowd Class in the Classroom: Hollywood's Distorted View of Inequality - Robert Bulman Outtake: Social Class in America and People Like Us - Kathy Feltey Chapter 4: Race & Ethnicity The Spectacle of Black Violence as Cinema - Ed Guerrero Don't Worry, We are all Racists!: Crash and the Politics of Privatization - Henry A. Giroux and Susan Searls Giroux Latinos/as Through the Lens - Carleen R. Basler Outtake: Pocahontas and Intersectionality: A Sociologist Reflects - Teresa Martinez Chapter 5: Gender & Sexuality The Masculinity of the Governator: Muscle and Compassion in American Politics - Michael Messner Constructing Empowered Women: Cinematic Images of Power, and Powerful Women - Jean-Anne Sutherland Boundary Work: Bisexuality and Transgender on Film - Betsy Lucal and Andrea Miller Outtake: Geena Davis Institute on Gender in Media - Jean-Anne Sutherland Chapter 6: Public & Private Social Worlds Service, Smiles and Selves: Representations of Labor and the Sociology of Work - Karla Erickson Reel Families: Family Life in Popular Film - Janet Cosbey Outtake: Seeing the Emotional Dimensions of Work and Family Life - Rebecca Erickson Chapter 7: Deviance, Crime & Law The Caped Crusader: What Batman Films Tell Us About Crime & Deviance - Robert Wonser and David Boyns Crime, Film and Criminology - Nicole Rafter The Hero, the Law, and the People in Between: Models of the Legal System in Hollywood Films - Valerie Callanan Outtake: Corporate Crime and The Informant! - Mike Maume Chapter 8: Life Course: Childhood, Adulthood & Old Age "Look Out New World, Here We Come"? Race, Racialization, and Sexuality in Four Children's Animated Films by Disney, Pixar, and DreamWorks - Carmen R. Lugo-Lugo and Mary K. Bloodsworth-Lugo First comes the Baby Carriage?: Non-Normative Transitions to Parenthood in Film - Jeanne Holcomb Battles & Balloons: Old Manhood in Film - Neal King Outtake: Growth of the Nonlinear Life Trajectory - Erica Orange Chapter 9: Social Institutions - Religion, Sports, Medical and War Seeing Religion Sociologically Through Film - Sue Monahan Sport as Social Institution: Football Films and the American Dream - Jeff Montez de Oca In Sickness and In Health: Medical Sociology through Celluloid Stories - Bernice Pescosolido and Kathleen Oberlin The 1991 Iraq Invasion in Cinematic Perspective: Jarhead and Three Kings - Elizabeth E. Martinez Outtake: Zombies Apocalypse: Understanding the Perceptions of Health vs. Non-Health - Andrew Hund Chapter 10: Global Connections Dirty Pretty Things: The State, Global Migration and Survival in Contemporary Cities - Roberto G. Gonzales Slumdog or Millionaire-May I phone a Friend?: Neoliberalism and Globalizing the American Dream - Alison Moss and Jerome Hendricks Outtakes: Arabs in Film - Jack Shaheen Chapter 11: Social Change - Technology, Collective Behavior & Social Movements From Earth to Cosmos: Environmental Sociology and Images of the Future in Science Fiction Film - Christopher Podeschi The Only Possible Solution?: The Challenge of Nonviolence to the Hegemony of Violence in Film - Kathryn Feltey 'We Will No Longer Sit Quietly:' Social Movements through Film - Jeffrey A. Langstraat Outtakes: Thoughts on Activist Movies (Excerpt) - John Farr