Download PDF by Chris Cagle: Sociology on Film: Postwar Hollywood's Prestige Commodity

By Chris Cagle

ISBN-10: 0813576938

ISBN-13: 9780813576930

ISBN-10: 0813576946

ISBN-13: 9780813576947

After international conflict II, Hollywood’s “social challenge films”—tackling topical concerns that incorporated racism, crime, psychological affliction, and drug abuse—were hits with critics and common moviegoers alike. In an period of movie famed for its reliance on pop psychology, those video clips have been a sort of well known sociology, bringing the educational discipline’s matters to a wider audience.

Sociology on Film examines how the postwar “problem movie” translated modern coverage debates and highbrow discussions into cinematic shape so that it will develop into one of many preeminent genres of status drama. Chris Cagle chronicles how those videos have been usually politically fractious, the paintings of revolutionary administrators and screenwriters who drew scrutiny from the home Un-American actions Committee. but he additionally proposes that the style helped to build an summary discourse of “society” that served to unify a middlebrow American viewers.

As he considers the numerous types of print media that served to encourage social challenge movies, together with journalism, realist novels, and sociological texts, Cagle additionally explores their specified cinematic aesthetics. via an in depth research of movies like Gentleman’s Agreement, The misplaced Weekend, and Intruder within the Dust, he provides a compelling case that the visible sort of those movies was once in detail hooked up to their extra expressly political and sociological aspirations. Sociology on Film demonstrates how the social challenge photo either formed and mirrored the middle-class viewer’s nationwide self-image, creating a lasting impression on Hollywood’s aesthetic direction.

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