American Dream and Contemporary Hollywood Cinema.

American Dream and Contemporary Hollywood Cinema.

While the myth of a classless America endures in the American Dream, the very stratification that it denies unfairly affects the majority of Americans. Study after study shows that it's increasingly difficult for working class people to achieve upward mobility in the US - so how does the Americ...

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Online Access: Full text (MCPHS users only)
Main Author: Winn, J. Emmett
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: London : Continuum International Pub. Group, 2007
Subjects:
Working class in motion pictures.
Social classes in motion pictures.
Motion pictures > United States.
Local Note:ProQuest Ebook Central
Table of Contents:
  • 1. The American Dream, Upward Mobility, and Hollywood Film
  • The American Language of Class
  • Understanding the Resiliency of the American Dream
  • Defining the American Dream
  • The American Dream, the Self, and Hollywood's Contemporary Era
  • Rhetorical Assessment of Filmic Value Systems
  • Rhetorical Analyses of the American Dream in Popular Culture
  • The Themes of Upward Mobility in Contemporary Hollywood Cinema
  • 2. Moralizing Mobility
  • Working Girl
  • An Officer and a Gentleman
  • Flashdance
  • Saturday Night Fever
  • The Enduring Nature of the American Dream
  • Moralizing Mobility
  • Working-Class Heroes and the Working-Class Life
  • 3. Moralizing Failure
  • Wall Street
  • The Firm
  • Someone to Watch Over Me.

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