America on Film: Representing Race, Class, Gender, and Sexuality at the Movies

America on Film: Representing Race, Class, Gender, and Sexuality at the Movies, in its third edition, is an authoritative and lively examination of diversity issues within American cinema. It incorporates several theoretical perspectives and examines each selected subject via representative films, figures, and movements. The book covers controversial areas such as masculinity and femininity, African- and Asian-Americans, sex and sexuality, and classical Hollywood cinema and class. It is ideal for undergraduate and graduate students in film, media, and diversity-related courses, as well as anyone interested in diversity issues in American studies, communications, history, or gender studies.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 448 pages
Publication date: 22 April 2021
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Inc

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.

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.

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:

The structure and history of American filmmaking, including a discussion of the evolution of the business of Hollywood cinema.

African Americans and American film, with a discussion of BlacKkKlansman informing its examination of broader issues.

Asian, Latin/x, and Native Americans on film.

Classical Hollywood cinema and class, with an in-depth examination of Th.

By exploring these topics in depth, America on Film offers a valuable contribution to the field of film studies and provides a deeper understanding of the complex and multifaceted representations of race, class, gender, sexuality, and ability in American cinema throughout the 20th and 21st centuries.

Weight: 966g
Dimension: 204 x 254 x 28 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781118743652
Edition number: 3rd Edition