Hollywood as mirror : changing views of "outsiders" and "enemies" in American movies
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Hollywood as mirror : changing views of "outsiders" and "enemies" in American movies
（Contributions to the study of popular culture, no. 38）
Greenwood Press, 1993
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Bibliography: p. [157]-159
Includes index
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Featuring the contributions of a number of prominent scholars who are conducting pioneering research into the connections between movies and history, Toplin shows how themes addressed in Hollywood films often reflect the interests, hopes, fears, and prejudices of the American people. The authors see movies as mirrors of important changes in American society. They trace significant transformations in popular opinion toward outsiders, particularly immigrants, ethnic groups, African-Americans, and women, and they observe the development of attitudes toward enemies, particularly fascists and communists abroad and subversives at home. Their essays demonstrate that movies can serve as valuable sources for sensing the changing pulse of American society.
Table of Contents
Introduction by Robert Brent Toplin Film as Politics/Film as Business: The Blaxploitation of the Plantation by Edward D.C. Campbell, Jr. Popular Culture Prophesy: Black American Slavery in Film by William L. Van Deburg Hollywood Views the Mexican-American: From The Greaser's Revenge to The Milagro Beanfield War by Allen L. Woll Them and Us: Immigration as Societal Barometer and Social Educator in American Film by Carlos E. Cortes Hollywood's Harlots, 1900-1930: Fallen Women and the American Dream Machine by Leslie Fishbein The "Foreign Policy of Hollywood:" Interventionist Sentiment in the American Film, 1938-1941 by James J. Lorence Hollywood and the Cold War, 1945-1961 by Daniel J. Leab Hollywood Laughs at the Cold War, 1947-1961 by John H. Lenihan Bibliographic Essay Index
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