Movies & Mass Culture

List of contents

Introduction
Mass Culture, the Individual, and the Mass
Apocalyptic Cinema: D. W. Griffith and the Aesthetics of Reform
The Crowd, the Collective, and the Chorus: Busby Berkeley and the New Deal
The Regulation of Desire: From Mass Consumption to Mass Morality
The Carole Lombard in Macy's Window
The Economy of Desire: The Commodity Form in/of the Cinema
The Production Code
The Dark Side of Mass Culture: Film Noir
Notes on Film Noir
Woman's Place: The Absent Family of Film Noir
Mass Production, the Failure of the New, and Reaganite Cinema
Postmodernism and Consumer Society
Papering the Cracks: Fantasy and Ideology in the Reagan Era
Against the Grain
New U.S. Black Cinema
The Oppositional Gaze: Black Female Spectators
Select Bibliography
Contributors
Index

About the author

JOHN BELTON is a professor of English at Rutgers University and author of Widescreen Cinema and American Cinema/American Culture.

Product details

• Authors: John Belton
• Assisted by: John Belton (Editor)
• Publisher: Univ of Chicago Behalf of Rutgers Univ Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.10.1995
• EAN: 9780813522289
• ISBN: 978-0-8135-2228-9
• No. of pages: 279
• Dimensions: 153 mm x 228 mm x 20 mm
• Weight: 463 g
• Series: Depth of Field (Paperback); Rutgers Depth of Field Series; Rutgers Depth of Field; Depth of Field (Paperback)
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Art > Theatre, ballet