Overview

Cinematic Sociology is a one-of-a-kind resource that helps students to view films sociologically while also providing much needed pedagogy for teaching sociology through film. In this engaging text the authors take readers beyond watching movies and help them see films sociologically while also developing critical thinking and analytical skills that will be useful in college coursework and beyond. The book's 15 essays from expert scholars in sociology and cultural studies explore the ways social life is presented - distorted, magnified, or politicized - in popular film.

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Author:   Jean-Anne Sutherland ,  Kathryn M. Feltey
Publisher:   SAGE Publications Inc
Imprint:   SAGE Publications Inc
Edition:   2nd Revised edition
Dimensions:   Width: 17.70cm , Height: 2.30cm , Length: 25.40cm
Weight:   0.950kg
ISBN:  

9781412992848

ISBN 10:   1412992842
Pages:   496
Publication Date:   29 May 2012
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

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

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Jean-anne Sutherland is an associate professor at the University of North Carolina, Wilmington. For several years her primary research and teaching interests have centered on teaching sociology through film. Other areas of research include gender, mothering, and social psychology. Kathryn Feltey is associate professor and director of undergraduate studies in sociology at the University of Akron. She has taught sociology through film several times and also taught masculinity in contemporary society and sociology of motherhood through the use of feature films. She is currently the Gender Section Editor of Sociology Compass.

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