R. F. Abernethy

James J. Dowd

D. A. Reynolds

Joseph J. Wallace

Raymond G. Travis

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Report of Investigations

Wilbur A. Haley

Louis A. Turnbull

Modified Longwall Mining with a German Coal Planer (plow) in the Pocohontas No. 4 Coal Bed, Helen, W. Va

Through an analysis of hundreds of Hollywood movies, this book examines some of the most contentious social issues of our time, including racism, social inequality, sexism, and gerontophobia. With studies of some of the most enduring film genres in Hollywood’s history, including romantic films such as Casablanca, war movies from World War II through the Iraq and Afghanistan conflicts, alienation films, including Five Easy Pieces and Lost in Translation, the school movie, from Goodbye, Mr. Chips to other films set in academia, including Dead Poets Society and Dangerous Minds, the book outlines and demonstrates the sociological approach to viewing films and highlights the socially conservative nature of much Hollywood movie production, which draws on common stereotypes and reinforces dominant cultural values - but is also capable of challenging and serving to change them.

How Hollywood Imagines War, Schools, Romance, Aging, and Social Inequality

Social Life in the Movies

James J. Dowd

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