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Table of Contents
Introduction
Mass Culture, the Individual, and the Mass
Apocalyptic Cinema: D. W. Griffith and the Aesthetics of Reform
The Crowd, the Collective, and the Chorus: Busby Berkeley and the New Deal
The Regulation of Desire: From Mass Consumption to Mass Morality
The Carole Lombard in Macy's Window
The Economy of Desire: The Commodity Form in/of the Cinema
The Production Code
The Dark Side of Mass Culture: Film Noir
Notes on Film Noir
Woman's Place: The Absent Family of Film Noir
Mass Production, the Failure of the New, and Reaganite Cinema
Postmodernism and Consumer Society
Papering the Cracks: Fantasy and Ideology in the Reagan Era
Against the Grain
New U.S. Black Cinema
The Oppositional Gaze: Black Female Spectators
Select Bibliography
Contributors
Index

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      Publisher: MW - Rutgers University Press
      Publication Date: 10/1/1995 12:00:00 AM
      ISBN13: 9780813522289, 978-0813522289
      ISBN10: 0813522285

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      Table of Contents
      Introduction
      Mass Culture, the Individual, and the Mass
      Apocalyptic Cinema: D. W. Griffith and the Aesthetics of Reform
      The Crowd, the Collective, and the Chorus: Busby Berkeley and the New Deal
      The Regulation of Desire: From Mass Consumption to Mass Morality
      The Carole Lombard in Macy's Window
      The Economy of Desire: The Commodity Form in/of the Cinema
      The Production Code
      The Dark Side of Mass Culture: Film Noir
      Notes on Film Noir
      Woman's Place: The Absent Family of Film Noir
      Mass Production, the Failure of the New, and Reaganite Cinema
      Postmodernism and Consumer Society
      Papering the Cracks: Fantasy and Ideology in the Reagan Era
      Against the Grain
      New U.S. Black Cinema
      The Oppositional Gaze: Black Female Spectators
      Select Bibliography
      Contributors
      Index

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