{"product_id":"movies-38-mass-culture-paperback-softback-9780813522289","title":"Movies \u0026#38; Mass Culture (Paperback \/ softback) 9780813522289","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eMovies \u0026amp; Mass Culture\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eJohn Belton (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780813522289\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 1 October 1995\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e279 pages\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 1.5 cm, 0.399 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eMovies and Mass Culture looks at the ways in which American identity shapes and is shaped by motion pictures. Movies serve not only as texts that document who we think we are or were, but they also reflect changes in our self-image, tracing the transformation from one kind of America to another. They assist audiences in negotiating major changes in identity, carrying them across difficult periods of cultural transition so that a more or less coherent national identity again emerges. Films thus help their viewers to span the gaps and fissures that cultural changes cause, allowing passage over any disjointedness that in some way might disrupt our sense of what we believe in as a nation. This volume examines this process, illustrating the ways in which films aided America's transition from an agrarian to an industrial economy; from a nation of producers to one of consumers; and from a community of individuals to a mass society. \u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eIntroduction\u003cbr\u003e Mass Culture, the Individual, and the Mass\u003cbr\u003e Apocalyptic Cinema: D. W. Griffith and the Aesthetics of Reform\u003cbr\u003e The Crowd, the Collective, and the Chorus: Busby Berkeley and the New Deal\u003cbr\u003e The Regulation of Desire: From Mass Consumption to Mass Morality\u003cbr\u003e The Carole Lombard in Macy's Window\u003cbr\u003e The Economy of Desire: The Commodity Form in\/of the Cinema\u003cbr\u003e The Production Code\u003cbr\u003e The Dark Side of Mass Culture: Film Noir\u003cbr\u003e Notes on Film Noir\u003cbr\u003e Woman's Place: The Absent Family of Film Noir\u003cbr\u003e Mass Production, the Failure of the New, and Reaganite Cinema\u003cbr\u003e Postmodernism and Consumer Society\u003cbr\u003e Papering the Cracks: Fantasy and Ideology in the Reagan Era\u003cbr\u003e Against the Grain\u003cbr\u003e New U.S. Black Cinema\u003cbr\u003e The Oppositional Gaze: Black Female Spectators\u003cbr\u003e Select Bibliography\u003cbr\u003e Contributors\u003cbr\u003e Index\u003c\/div\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Rutgers University Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52559277261080,"sku":"9780813522289","price":26.47,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/movies-38-mass-culture-paperback-softback-9780813522289","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}