"Hollywood has devoted big budgets and established stars to films about controversial issues in the last ten years. Identities considered marginal have come into prominence on the big screen. The authors of Gender, Ethnicity and Sexuality in Contemporary American Film look at the issues raised by these developments, bring together debates in identity politics with film studies, and launch an innovative theorization of the cinematic repre ..."
"Throughout the book, the cinema's artistic encounter with the city always intersects with a social and political engagement in which urgent issues of class, race, sexuality, the environment, liberty, capital, and totalitarianism are everywhere at stake.The city has long been an important location for filmmakers. Visually compelling and always modern, it is the perfect metaphor for man's place in the contemporary world. In this provocati ..."
"Americanization - the cultural, political and economic influence of the USA - has played an important role in the shaping of modern Europe. This textbook offers students an interdisciplinary and theoretically informed understanding of the cultural processes of Americanization. Included are chapters on music, art, film and literature. Designed with classroom use in mind, it provides a number of different routes into the debates and probl ..."