The Screening of America
Movies and Values from Rocky to Rain Man
1st Edition
Published on 6. October 2016
224 pages
978-1-4742-8798-2 (ISBN)
Description
This is an original investigation of how movies have reflected and helped to shape the values of a generation. From All the President's Men to Wall Street, US films of the 1970s and 80s were a kaleidoscope of shifting values and contrasting moral viewpoints. Knowing that movies mirror the way we think we are - or would like to be - O'Brien focuses on the key values (or their absence) found in films from this period in order to see more clearly what Americans really cherished in life, and how these values have evolved or changed.
Comprehensive and thought provoking, this book addresses how and why movies glamorized and portrayed certain professions; the changing role of women; the targeting of religion for satire; the addressing of environmental issues and film's representation of and engagement with history.
Comprehensive and thought provoking, this book addresses how and why movies glamorized and portrayed certain professions; the changing role of women; the targeting of religion for satire; the addressing of environmental issues and film's representation of and engagement with history.
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Series
Edition
1. Auflage
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Target group
College/higher education
ISBN-13
978-1-4742-8798-2 (9781474287982)
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Book
10/2016
Bloomsbury Academic
€152.80
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Person
Tom O'Brien worked as film critic for Commonweal and formerly chaired Humanities at the Manhattan School of Music in New York, USA.
Content
Preface
1. Introduction: The Unusual Suspects
2. Teaching
3. Cultural Literacy
4. Work
5. Sports
6. Home
7. Environment
8. Patriotism
9. Heroines
10. Justice
11. Irony
12. Religion
Notes
Index
1. Introduction: The Unusual Suspects
2. Teaching
3. Cultural Literacy
4. Work
5. Sports
6. Home
7. Environment
8. Patriotism
9. Heroines
10. Justice
11. Irony
12. Religion
Notes
Index
