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

Format:

Book

Contributor:

James, David E., 1945-

Berg, Rick.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Motion pictures--Political aspects.

Motion pictures.

Motion pictures--Social aspects.

Social classes.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (306 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, c1996.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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.

Contents:

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

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0-8166-8694-7

OCLC:

476094015