Love and Marriage Across Social Classes in American Cinema
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This book is the first comprehensive and systematic study of cross-class romance films throughout the history of American cinema. It provides vivid discussions of these romantic films, analyses their normative patterns and thematic concerns, traces how they...
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This book is the first comprehensive and systematic study of cross-class romance films throughout the history of American cinema. It provides vivid discussions of these romantic films, analyses their normative patterns and thematic concerns, traces how they were shaped by inequalities of gender and class in American society, and explains why they were especially popular from World War I through the roaring twenties and the Great Depression. In the vast majority of cross-class romance films the female is poor or from the working class, the male is wealthy or from the upper class, and the romance ends successfully in marriage or the promise of marriage.Inhaltsverzeichnis zu „Love and Marriage Across Social Classes in American Cinema “
Preface.- 1. Love, Marriage and Class.- 2. Before the Movies: The Cross-Class Romance in Fiction.- 3. From Attraction and the One-Reeler to the Feature.- 4. Sexual Exploitation and Class Conflict.- 5. Consumerism and Ethnicity.- 6. The Cross-Class Romance in the Depression.- 7. Male Seducers and Female Gold-Diggers.- 8. The End of the Golden Era and After.Autoren-Porträt von Stephen Sharot
Stephen Sharot (D.Phil. Oxford) is Emeritus Professor of Sociology at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev. His research focuses on representations of class and their relationships to gender in popular cinema. He is the author of five books and numerous articles in the sociology of religion. Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: Stephen Sharot
- 2018, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2017, XIX, 273 Seiten, Maße: 14,8 x 1,6 cm, Kartoniert (TB), Englisch
- Verlag: Springer, Berlin
- ISBN-10: 3319824325
- ISBN-13: 9783319824321
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Englisch
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"Stephen Sharot, professor of sociology and anthropology at Ben-Gurion University, presents here the first comprehensive and systematic study of cross-class romance films throughout the history of American cinema. ... Love and Marriage Across Social Classes is a great journey." (John A. Dick, Marriage, Families & Spirituality, Vol. 29 (1), 2023)"This book is useful for American cinema scholars for its encyclopedic coverage of these films and for the patterns it observes across the quantity of films it explores. Sharot also provides enough context of both developments in the film industry ... . Accomplishing much more than merely a history of a prominent film subgenre, the book joins the complex historical and sociological conversation about class and gender in twentieth-century America." (Paul Arras, Journal of Popular Culture, 2018)
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