Cinematic Sociology

Author : Jean-Anne Sutherland,Kathryn Feltey
Publisher : SAGE
Page : 497 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781412992848

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Cinematic Sociology by Jean-Anne Sutherland,Kathryn Feltey Pdf

Cinematic Sociology is a one-of-a-kind resource that helps students to view films sociologically while also providing much-needed pedagogy for teaching sociology through film. In this engaging text, the authors take readers beyond watching movies and help them "see" films sociologically while also developing critical thinking and analytical skills that will be useful in college coursework and beyond. The book's essays from expert scholars in sociology and cultural studies explore the ways social life is presented--distorted, magnified, or politicized--in popular film. Contributor to the SAGE Teaching Innovations and Professional Development Award

Author : Chris Cagle
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2016-12-28
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780813576961

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Sociology on Film by Chris Cagle Pdf

After World War II, Hollywood’s “social problem films”—tackling topical issues that included racism, crime, mental illness, and drug abuse—were hits with critics and general moviegoers alike. In an era of film famed for its reliance on pop psychology, these movies were a form of popular sociology, bringing the academic discipline’s concerns to a much broader audience. Sociology on Film examines how the postwar “problem film” translated contemporary policy debates and intellectual discussions into cinematic form in order to become one of the preeminent genres of prestige drama. Chris Cagle chronicles how these movies were often politically fractious, the work of progressive directors and screenwriters who drew scrutiny from the House Un-American Activities Committee. Yet he also proposes that the genre helped to construct an abstract discourse of “society” that served to unify a middlebrow American audience. As he considers the many forms of print media that served to inspire social problem films, including journalism, realist novels, and sociological texts, Cagle also explores their distinctive cinematic aesthetics. Through a close analysis of films like Gentleman’s Agreement, The Lost Weekend, and Intruder in the Dust, he presents a compelling case that the visual style of these films was intimately connected to their more expressly political and sociological aspirations. Sociology on Film demonstrates how the social problem picture both shaped and reflected the middle-class viewer’s national self-image, making a lasting impact on Hollywood’s aesthetic direction.

Author : Bulent Diken,Carsten Bagge Laustsen
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 156 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2008-10-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781134064854

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Sociology Through the Projector by Bulent Diken,Carsten Bagge Laustsen Pdf

Sociology through the Projector takes issue with the question of how contemporary film can help answering the general, abstract but still urgent question: what is the social today? This book explains the performative relation to contemporary social theory in which cinema functions as a tool for social diagnosis. There is much to be learned about social theory through an encounter with films as films are part and parcel of the society they portray. Increasingly more lay knowledge about social problems and facts stems from cinema as it offers to large audiences a popular and pedagogical introduction to social knowledge. Social theory cannot avoid a critical engagement with cinema as cinema interprets, invents, displaces and distorts the object of sociological inquiry. This book will provide a deeper understanding of contemporary social theory as the chosen films will work as a pedagogical route into contemporary social theory. The films represent a mix of European and American blockbusters and more aesthetically orientated films. The authors question several dominant topics and concerns within social theory and film studies. Firstly, by cross-examining a series of concepts such as identity, representation, memory and surveillance (filming social behaviour) which are of concern to both film theory and social theory. Secondly, by trying to develop imaginative approaches to standard social concerns such as exclusion, gender roles and inequalities, power, infantilisation and commodification of the social and psychological bonds. This book will be a great resource for students and researchers of Sociology, Contemporary Social Theory, Film Studies and Cultural Studies.

Author : Stephen Sharot
Publisher : Springer
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2016-11-18
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9783319417998

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Love and Marriage Across Social Classes in American Cinema by Stephen Sharot Pdf

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.

Author : David Inglis,Anna-Mari Almila
Publisher : SAGE
Page : 1301 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2016-03-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781473958661

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The SAGE Handbook of Cultural Sociology by David Inglis,Anna-Mari Almila Pdf

Cultural sociology - or the sociology of culture - has grown from a minority interest in the 1970s to become one of the largest and most vibrant areas within sociology globally. In The SAGE Handbook of Cultural Sociology, a global range of experts explore the theory, methodology and innovations that make up this ever-expanding field. The Handbook′s 40 original chapters have been organised into five thematic sections: Theoretical Paradigms Major Methodological Perspectives Domains of Inquiry Cultural Sociology in Contexts Cultural Sociology and Other Analytical Approaches Both comprehensive and current, The SAGE Handbook of Cultural Sociology will be an essential reference tool for both advanced students and scholars across sociology, cultural studies and media studies.

Author : J P (Jacob Peter) 1903- Mayer
Publisher : Hassell Street Press
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2021-09-09
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1014569311

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Sociology of Film by J P (Jacob Peter) 1903- Mayer Pdf

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. To ensure a quality reading experience, this work has been proofread and republished using a format that seamlessly blends the original graphical elements with text in an easy-to-read typeface. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Author : Norman K Denzin
Publisher : SAGE Publications Limited
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 1995-06-08
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0803986572

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The Cinematic Society by Norman K Denzin Pdf

Ranging over a rich variety of material from film and film literature, and encompassing a critical interrogation of traditional realist ethnographic and cinematic texts, this book highlights the extent to which the cinema has contributed to the rise of voyeurism throughout society. The cinema not only turns its audience into voyeurs, eagerly following the lives of its screen characters, but casts its key players as onlookers, spying on other's lives. The nature of the cinematic voyeur is examined in depth, as are its implications for contemporary society. Norman K Denzin analyzes Hollywood's manipulations of gender, race and class, and, drawing on the work of Foucault, argues that the cinematic gaze must be understood as pa

Author : Codruţa Morari
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 285 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2017-07-01
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781805394242

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The Bressonians by Codruţa Morari Pdf

How should we understand film authorship in an era when the idea of the solitary and sovereign auteur has come under attack, with critics proclaiming the death of the author and the end of cinema? The Bressonians provides an answer in the form of a strikingly original study of Bresson and his influence on the work of filmmakers Jean Eustache and Maurice Pialat. Extending the discourse of authorship beyond the idea of a singular visionary, it explores how the imperatives of excellence function within cinema’s pluralistic community. Bresson’s example offered both an artistic legacy and a creative burden within which filmmakers reckoned in different, often arduous, and altogether compelling ways.

Author : Mark Shiel,Tony Fitzmaurice
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 325 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2011-07-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781444399738

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Cinema and the City by Mark Shiel,Tony Fitzmaurice Pdf

This book brings together the literature of urban sociology and film studies to explore new analytical and theoretical approaches to the relationship between cinema and the city, and to show how these impact on the realities of life in urban societies.

Author : Ian Charles Jarvie
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 415 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2014-05-12
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317854159

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Towards a Sociology of the Cinema (ILS 92) by Ian Charles Jarvie Pdf

First published in 1998. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Author : Alessandra Seggi
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 350 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2022-10-27
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9783031086861

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Youth and Suicide in American Cinema by Alessandra Seggi Pdf

This book explores the depiction of suicide in American youth films from 1900 to 2019. Anchored in Sociology, this multidisciplinary study investigates the causes and consequences of suicide and uncovers the socio-cultural context for the development of youth, film, and suicide. While such cinematic portrayals seem to privilege external explanations of suicide versus internal or psychological ones, overall they are neither rich nor sensitive. Most are simplistic, limited or at the very least unbalanced. At times, they are flatly controversial. In light of this overall problematic depiction of suicide, this book offers a proactive approach to empower young audiences—a media literacy strategy to embrace while watching these films.

Author : Ian Charles Jarvie
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 235 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2014-05-12
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317854142

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Towards a Sociology of the Cinema (ILS 92) by Ian Charles Jarvie Pdf

First published in 1998. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Author : Galaby, Aly Abdel Razek,Abo ElEnein, Mohammed,Mohamed, Hassan
Publisher : IGI Global
Page : 293 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2024-01-04
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781668489659

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Global Perspectives on Climate Change, Social Resilience, and Social Inclusion by Galaby, Aly Abdel Razek,Abo ElEnein, Mohammed,Mohamed, Hassan Pdf

The world is confronting the reality of climate change, which transcends geographical boundaries, necessitating a multidisciplinary approach. Effective mitigation strategies for climate change demand diversity, inclusion, equity, and collaboration as paramount considerations in the formulation and execution of mitigation strategies. Global Perspectives on Climate Change, Social Resilience, and Social Inclusion illuminates the interplay between climate shifts and society's complex tapestry. Authored by leading sociologists and interdisciplinary scholars, this researched volume offers an exploration of climate change through the lens of sociology, unveiling its implications for our global community. Moreover, the book spotlights the proactive voices of voluntary associations and activists dedicated to championing climate change victims' rights. Their collective message resonates throughout: mitigating climate change risks must be integrated into a broader framework of resilient development, elevating the economic standing and quality of life for disadvantaged groups while fostering equity across all strata of society. This book is ideal for scholars, policymakers, and activists seeking a nuanced understanding of the intricate interplay between climate change and the social fabric of our world.

Author : Diana Papademas
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Sociology
ISBN : UCSC:32106015081984

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Visual Sociology and Using Film/video in Sociology Courses by Diana Papademas Pdf

Author : Annette Kuhn,Guy Westwell
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 530 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2012-06-21
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780191034657

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A Dictionary of Film Studies by Annette Kuhn,Guy Westwell Pdf

Written by experts in the field, this dictionary covers all aspects of film studies, including terms, concepts, debates, and movements in film theory and criticism, national, international and transnational cinemas, film history, film movements and genres, film industry organizations and practices, and key technical terms and concepts in 500 detailed entries. Most entries also feature recommendations for further reading and a large number also have web links. The web links are listed and regularly updated on a companion website that complements the printed book. The dictionary is international in its approach, covering national cinemas, genres, and film movements from around the world such as the Nouvelle Vague, Latin American cinema, the Latsploitation film, Bollywood, Yiddish cinema, the spaghetti western, and World cinema. The most up-to-date dictionary of its kind available, this is a must-have for all students of film studies and ancillary subjects, as well as an informative read for cinephiles and for anyone with an interest in films and film criticism.