America on Film: Representing Race, Class, Gender,and Sexuality at the Movies

Harry M. Benshoff, Sean Griffin

Wiley, Oct 20, 2003 - Performing Arts - 392 pages

America on Film: Representing Race, Class, Gender, and Sexuality in the Movies is a lively introduction to issues of diversity as represented within the American cinema.

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• Introduces issues of diversity as represented within the American cinema in a lively and accessible manner.
  
• Provides a comprehensive overview of the industrial, socio-cultural, and aesthetic factors that contribute to cinematic representations of race, class, gender, and sexuality.
  
• Is designed specifically for students and includes 101 illustrations, a glossary of key terms, questions for discussion, and lists for futher reading and further viewing.
  
• Includes case studies of a number of films, including The Lion King, The Jazz Singer, Smoke Signals, The Grapes of Wrath, and The Celluloid Closet.
  
• Each chapter features a concise overview of the topic at hand, a discussion of representative films, figures, and movements, and an in-depth analysis of a single film.

About the author

Harry M. Benshoff is Assistant Professor of Radio, Television, and Film at the University of North Texas. He is author of Monsters in the Closet: Homosexuality and the Horror Film (1997).

Sean Griffin is Assistant Professor of Cinema and Television at Southern Methodist University. He is author of Tinker Bells and Evil Queens: The Walt Disney Company from the Inside Out (2000).

Bibliographic information

• Title: America on Film: Representing Race, Class, Gender,and Sexuality at the Movies
• Authors: Harry M. Benshoff, Sean Griffin
• Edition: illustrated, reprint
• Publisher: Wiley, 2003
• ISBN: 063122582X, 9780631225829
• Length: 392 pages
• Subjects: Performing Arts / Film / History & Criticism; Photography / Techniques / Cinematography & Videography