America on Film. Sean Griffin

      

      Table of Contents

      1  Cover

      2  Title Page

      3  Copyright Page

      4  Preface to the Third Edition

      5  Acknowledgments

      6  How to use this Book

      7  About the Companion Website

      8  Part I: CULTURE AND AMERICAN FILM Chapter 1: INTRODUCTION TO THE STUDY OF FILM FORM AND REPRESENTATION Film Form American Ideologies: Discrimination and Resistance Culture and Cultural Studies Questions for Discussion Further Reading Chapter 2: THE STRUCTURE AND HISTORY OF HOLLYWOOD FILMMAKING Hollywood vs. Independent Film The Style of Hollywood Cinema The Business of Hollywood The History of Hollywood: The Movies Begin The Classical Hollywood Cinema World War II and Postwar Film “New” Hollywood and the Blockbuster Mentality 21^st‐Century Convergence Culture Questions for Discussion Further Reading Further Screening

      9  Part II: RACE AND ETHNICITY AND AMERICAN FILM Chapter 3: THE CONCEPT OF WHITENESS AND AMERICAN FILM Seeing White Bleaching the Green: The Irish in American Cinema Looking for Respect: Italians in American Cinema A Special Case: Jews and Hollywood Veiled and Reviled: Arabs on Film in America Conclusion: Whiteness and American Film Today Questions for Discussion Further Reading Further Screening Chapter 4: AFRICAN AMERICANS AND AMERICAN FILM African Americans in Early Film Blacks in Classical Hollywood Cinema World War II and the Postwar Social Problem Film The Rise and Fall of Blaxploitation Filmmaking Hollywood in the 1980s and the Arrival of Spike Lee Black Independent vs. “Neo‐Blaxploitation” Filmmaking in the 1990s African Americans and the Oscars The Twenty‐first Century: Smaller Films, Bigger Profits? Conclusion Questions for Discussion Further Reading Further Screening Chapter 5: NATIVE AMERICANS AND AMERICAN FILM The American “Indian” Before Film Ethnographic Films and the Rise of the Hollywood Western The Evolving Western A Kinder, Gentler America? Conclusion: Twenty‐first Century Indians? Questions for Discussion Further Reading Further Screening Chapter 6: ASIAN AMERICANS AND AMERICAN FILM Silent Film and Asian Images Asians in Classical Hollywood Cinema World War II and After: War Films, Miscegenation Melodramas, Kung Fu, and the Start of Asian American Independent Filmmaking Towards a Global Hollywood: Asian American Actors and Filmmakers of the Last Thirty Years Further Reading Further Screening Chapter 7: LATINOS AND AMERICAN FILM The Greaser and the Latin Lover: Alternating Stereotypes World War II and After: The Good Neighbor Policy