The hidden foundation [[electronic resource] ] : cinema and the question of class / / David E. James and Rick Berg, editors

• Pubblicazione: Minneapolis, : University of Minnesota Press, c1996
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (306 p.)
• Disciplina: 791.43/652062
• Soggetto topico: Motion pictures - Political aspects; Motion pictures - Social aspects; Social classes
• Altri autori: JamesDavid E. <1945-> BergRick
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Contents; 1. Introduction: Is There Class in This Text?; 2. Beyond the Screen: History, Class, and the Movies; 3. The Melos in Marxist Theory; 4. Strike and the Question of Class; 5. The Gun in the Briefcase; or, The Inscription of Class in Film Noir; 6. ""No Sin in Lookin' Prosperous"": Gender, Race, and the Class Formations of Middlebrow Taste in Douglas Sirk's Imitation of Life; 7. Compromised Liberation: The Politics of Class in Chinese Cinema of the Early 1950's; 8. Out of the Mine and into the Canyon: Working-Class Feminism, Yesterday and Today ; 9. For a Working-Class Television: The Miners' Campaign Tape Project 10. Poltergeists, Gender, and Class in the Age of Reagan and Bush; 11. Class in Action; 12. The Hollywood Waitress: A Hard-Boiled Egg and the Salt of the Earth; Contributors; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: Ranging from the earliest days of the cinema to the present, The Hidden Foundation reestablishes class as a fundamental aspect of film history. Featuring prominent film scholars and historians acting to inaugurate a new type of film studies, this volume is unique in its international scope, diversity of perspectives and methodologies, and the cultural, political, and historical sweep of its analysis.
• Titolo autorizzato: The hidden foundation
• ISBN: 0-8166-8694-7
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910784369903321
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