Hollywood Shot by Shot

1. Auflage 1991
ISBN: 978-0-202-30344-4
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 309 Seiten, Format (B × H): 160 mm x 237 mm, Gewicht: 635 g

Reihe: Communication & Social Order

To what extent have Hollywood feature films shaped the meanings that Americans attach to alcoholics, their families, and the alcoholic condition? To what extent has the mass culture of the movie industry itself been conceptually shaped by a broad, external societal discourse? Norman Denzin brings to his life-long study of alcoholism a searching interest in how cultural texts signify and lend themselves to interpretation within a social nexus. Both historical and diachronic in his approach, Denzin identifies five periods in the alcoholism films made between 1932 and the end of the 1980s, and offers a detailed critical reading of thirty-seven films produced during these six decades.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Denzin, Norman K.

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Mediensoziologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein
• Sozialwissenschaften Medien- und Kommunikationswissenschaften Medienwissenschaften

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments, Preface, PART I. INTERPRETIVE STRUCTURES, PART II. 1932-1962: DEFINING ALCOHOLISM FOR THE AMERICAN PUBLIC, PART III. 1962-1980: THE LOST ALCOHOLIC?, PART IV. THE 1980s: ALCOHOLISM THE FAMILY DISEASE, SELECTED FILMOGRAPHY, REFERENCES, INDEX

Über Autor(innen)

Norman K. Denzin