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swept aside in f...The Hunger Games franchise (2012–15), based on the popular young adult nove...The Florida Project (2017) explores the day to day lives of poor women and ...

      10 Chapter 10Mary Pickford, affectionately know by her fans as Little Mary, often embodi...Theda Bara, whose studio‐given name was allegedly devised by mixing up the ...Clara Bow embodied the image of the 1920s flapper, a young woman who was mu...Film director Dorothy Arzner made many films in classical Hollywood; in ord...Mae West was one of Pre‐Code Hollywood’s most notorious leading ladies; she...The woman’s film Imitation of Life (1934) was remade by Douglas Sirk in 195...In All That Heaven Allows (1955), Jane Wyman as Carrie is surrounded by the...In All That Heaven Allows (1955), Carrie and Ron (Rock Hudson) stand before...

      11 Chapter 11Marilyn Monroe epitomized the blonde bombshell in 1950s Hollywood movies. H...In classical Hollywood films, objective shots of the male protagonist are o...This famous World War II publicity photograph of Betty Grable is a good exa...Three‐point lighting was and is the Hollywood standard; it focuses attentio...The “human fountain” of chorus girls from Footlight Parade (1933), a specta...This typical kaleidoscopic shot from Busby Berkeley’s Gold Diggers of 1933 ...

      12 Chapter 12The star image of John Wayne, seen here as a cowboy hero in a publicity sho...Rudolph Valentino, seen here as The Son of the Sheik (1926), was the embodi...In Public Enemy (1931), James Cagney played a guy so tough he thought nothi...In the screwball comedy, gender roles are often inverted; in I Was a Male W...While enacting masculine bravado and heroism, John Agar and John Wayne in S...In Double Indemnity (1944), Fred MacMurray’s character is seduced and then ...This shot from T‐Men (1947) exemplifies the dark, twisted, and out‐of...In Dead Reckoning (1947), noir protagonist “Rip” Murdock (Humphrey Bogart) ...In the 1950s, James Dean came to represent a new kind of masculinity – more...Rock Hudson became a major Hollywood star in the 1950s by embodying traditi...

      13 Chapter 13The Sting (1973) was a popular buddy film starring Robert Redford and Paul ...African American TV executive Shonda Rhimes rose to fame creating hit shows...Sylvester Stallone, seen here in Rambo (1985), was one of several popular h...Jamie Lee Curtis as the “Final Girl” in Halloween (1978), one of the era’s ...Penny Marshall began her show business career as an actress and then became...Writer‐director Sofia Coppola was the first American woman to be nominated ...Thelma and Louise (1991), a feminist reworking of the Hollywood buddy genre...Academy Award winning director Kathryn Bigelow, best known for her films Th...Actor, screenwriter, and director, Greta Gerwig was nominated for two Oscar...Gal Gadot as DC Comics superhero Wonder Woman (2017), seen here on a World ...

      14 Chapter 14Actor William Haines was a top box office star in the late 1920s and early ...Marlene Dietrich, seen here dressed in a man’s tuxedo in Morocco (1930), of...Director James Whale, who infused a gay sensibility into many classical Hol...Gay Hollywood director George Cukor was discreet about his sexuality; he is...In Tea and Sympathy (1956), a young man (John Kerr) is harassed by his clas...Peter Lorre as Joel Cairo (left) in The Maltese Falcon (1941). His hair, co...

      15 Chapter 15In this scene from The Killing of Sister George (1968), Childie (Susannah Y...Based on a successful play, Boys in the Band (1970) explored issues faced b...Making Love (1982) was a rare Hollywood film that centered on homosexuality...The cast of Will & Grace (1998–2006), a popular TV show that brought li...Gus Van Sant was one of the leading directors of New Queer Cinema; he has s...The Incredibly True Adventure of Two Girls in Love (1995) is an old‐fashion...Hilary Swank won an Oscar for her role as Brandon Teena in Boys Don’t Cry...Dennis Quaid and Julianne Moore in Todd Haynes’s highly acclaimed Far From ...Simon (Nick Robinson) shares a kiss with “Blue” during the climax of Love, ...Emmy nominated trans actress and activist Laverne Cox rose to prominence as...The Fifty Shades of Grey films (2015–2018) explore a sadomasochistic sexual...As part of the #MeToo movement, actor Terry Crews came forward to say that ...

      16 Chapter 16Horror star Bela Lugosi as Ygor, the hunchbacked assistant to the mad docto...This scene from The Wizard of Oz (1939) exemplifies the classical Hollywood...One of the best‐known “little people” actors in Hollywood, Billy Barty is s...Patty Duke and Anne Bancroft both won Oscars for their performances in The ...Deaf actress Marlee Matlin won an Oscar for her leading role in Children of...Peter Dinklage as Tyrion Lannister in the popular HBO fantasy series Game o...A concerned deaf father in the documentary Sound and Fury (2000), a film th...Some of the quadriplegic rugby players featured in the popular documentary

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