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

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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• provides a comprehensive overview of the industrial, socio-cultural, and aesthetic factors that contribute to cinematic representations of race, class, gender, and sexuality
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• includes over 100 illustrations, glossary of key terms, questions for discussion, and lists for further reading/viewing
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• includes new case studies of a number of films, including Crash, Brokeback Mountain, and Quinceañera