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"Sociology on Film delivers intriguing new insights on the operations of Hollywood in the postwar years and its complex, muted engagement with the problems of social and industrial modernity." -- Lee Grieveson * University College London *
"Brims with fresh insights and penetrating sociological analysis, smoothly moving from one film to the next, highlighting unexpected linkages along the way… Highly recommended." * Choice *
"Cagle makes a powerful case for the importance of the social problem film as a prestige genre that conscientiously popularized developments in 20th-century sociology as it both formed and gratified Hollywood's aspirational 'middlebrow' audience." -- Jerome Christensen * author of America's Corporate Art: Studio Authorship of Hollywood Motion Pictures *

Table of Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1Two Modes of Prestige Film
2Hollywood as Popular Sociology
3Hollywood and the Public Sphere
4A Genre Out of Cycles
5Realist Melodrama
Epilogue
NotesIndex

Sociology on Film Postwar Hollywoods Prestige

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      Publisher: Rutgers University Press
      Publication Date: 28/12/2016
      ISBN13: 9780813576947, 978-0813576947
      ISBN10: 0813576946
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      Description

      Book Synopsis


      Trade Review
      "Sociology on Film delivers intriguing new insights on the operations of Hollywood in the postwar years and its complex, muted engagement with the problems of social and industrial modernity." -- Lee Grieveson * University College London *
      "Brims with fresh insights and penetrating sociological analysis, smoothly moving from one film to the next, highlighting unexpected linkages along the way… Highly recommended." * Choice *
      "Cagle makes a powerful case for the importance of the social problem film as a prestige genre that conscientiously popularized developments in 20th-century sociology as it both formed and gratified Hollywood's aspirational 'middlebrow' audience." -- Jerome Christensen * author of America's Corporate Art: Studio Authorship of Hollywood Motion Pictures *

      Table of Contents
      Acknowledgments
      Introduction
      1Two Modes of Prestige Film
      2Hollywood as Popular Sociology
      3Hollywood and the Public Sphere
      4A Genre Out of Cycles
      5Realist Melodrama
      Epilogue
      NotesIndex

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