{"product_id":"breaking-in-to-the-movies-9780631226031","title":"Breaking in to the Movies","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis text brings together Henry A. Giroux's best-known essays from the last 20 years, centring on important subjects on the cultural studies and pop culture agenda, including violence, race, class, gender, identity, politics, and children's culture.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"In this collection of essays, Henry Giroux demonstrates once again that he is one of our leading public political intellectuals. Every page is filled with the passion of his commitment both to social and economic justice and to theoretical rigor. This collection combines insightful readings of how specific films operate in the current social context and original reflections on the central theoretical and methodological issues facing cultural studies today. This is a book that will move both students and teachers.\" Lawrence Grossberg, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill \"Henry Giroux is one of our most penetrating cultural critics. In Breaking in to the Movies, he demonstrates how pleasure and power, entertainment and public pedagogy, are always intertwined in the culture of global capitalism. Giroux offers a refreshing approach in a field often characterized by a paucity of intellectual imagination. This is real cultural criticism.\" Sut Jhally, University of Massachusetts\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgements. \u003cp\u003eBreaking in to the Movies: An Introduction.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart I: Reclaiming the Political in Popular Culture.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1. \u003ci\u003eNorma Rae\u003c\/i\u003e: Character, Class, and Culture.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2. Hollywood Film and the Challenge of Neofascist Culture.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3. Lina Wertmuller: Film and the Dialectic of Liberalism.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4. \u003ci\u003eLooking for Mr. Goodbar\u003c\/i\u003e: Gender and the Politics of Pleasure.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart II: Hollywood Film and the War on Youth.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5. Slacking Off : Border Youth and Postmodern Education.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e6. Culture, Class, and Pedagody in \u003ci\u003eDead Poets Society.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e7. Children's Culture and Disney's Animated Films.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e8. The Politics of Pedagogy, Gender, and Whiteness in \u003ci\u003eDangerous Minds.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e9. Media Panics and the War Against \"\u003ci\u003eKids\"\u003c\/i\u003e: Larry Clark and the Politics of Diminished Hopes.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart III: Race and the Culture of Violence in Hollywood Films.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e10. Racism and the Aesthetic of Hyper-real Violoence: \u003ci\u003ePulp Fiction\u003c\/i\u003e and other Visual Tragedies.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e11. Multiculturalism and the Cultural Politics of Race in \u003ci\u003e187.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e12. Brutalized Bodies and Emasculated Politics: \u003ci\u003eFight Club,\u003c\/i\u003e Consumerism, and Masculine Violence.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIndex.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"John Wiley and Sons Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49403444855127,"sku":"9780631226031","price":99.86,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780631226031.jpg?v=1730483492","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/breaking-in-to-the-movies-9780631226031","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}