Table of Contents
Chapter 1: Introduction - Jean-Anne Sutherland and Kathryn FelteyChapter 2: TheorySitting in the Dark with Max: Classical Sociological Theory Through Film - Michael KimmelDecoding Modern Society: The Matrix Trilogy and the Realm of Alienation - Harry DahmsOuttake: Lights, Camera, Theory: Picturing Hollywood through Multiple Sociological Lenses - Mark RubinfeldChapter 3: Social ClassUnderstanding Social Mobility through the Movies - James J. DowdClass in the Classroom: Hollywood’s Distorted View of Inequality - Robert BulmanOuttake: Social Class in America and People Like Us - Kathy FelteyChapter 4: Race & EthnicityThe Spectacle of Black Violence as Cinema - Ed GuerreroDon't Worry, We are all Racists!: Crash and the Politics of Privatization - Henry A. Giroux and Susan Searls GirouxLatinos/as Through the Lens - Carleen R. BaslerOuttake: Pocahontas and Intersectionality: A Sociologist Reflects - Teresa MartinezChapter 5: Gender & SexualityThe Masculinity of the Governator: Muscle and Compassion in American Politics - Michael MessnerConstructing Empowered Women: Cinematic Images of Power, and Powerful Women - Jean-Anne SutherlandBoundary Work: Bisexuality and Transgender on Film - Betsy Lucal and Andrea MillerOuttake: Geena Davis Institute on Gender in Media - Jean-Anne SutherlandChapter 6: Public & Private Social WorldsService, Smiles and Selves: Representations of Labor and the Sociology of Work - Karla EricksonReel Families: Family Life in Popular Film - Janet CosbeyOuttake: Seeing the Emotional Dimensions of Work and Family Life - Rebecca EricksonChapter 7: Deviance, Crime & LawThe Caped Crusader: What Batman Films Tell Us About Crime & Deviance - Robert Wonser and David BoynsCrime, Film and Criminology - Nicole RafterThe Hero, the Law, and the People in Between: Models of the Legal System in Hollywood Films - Valerie CallananOuttake: Corporate Crime and The Informant! - Mike MaumeChapter 8: Life Course: Childhood, Adulthood & Old Age"Look Out New World, Here We Come”? Race, Racialization, and Sexuality in Four Children’s Animated Films by Disney, Pixar, and Dream Works - Carmen R. Lugo-Lugo and Mary K. Bloodsworth-LugoFirst comes the Baby Carriage?: Non-Normative Transitions to Parenthood in Film - Jeanne HolcombBattles & Balloons: Old Manhood in Film - Neal KingOuttake: Growth of the Nonlinear Life Trajectory - Erica OrangeChapter 9: Social Institutions – Religion, Sports, Medical and WarSeeing Religion Sociologically Through Film - Sue MonahanSport as Social Institution: Football Films and the American Dream - Jeff Montez de OcaIn Sickness and In Health: Medical Sociology through Celluloid Stories - Bernice Pescosolido and Kathleen OberlinThe 1991 Iraq Invasion in Cinematic Perspective: Jarhead and Three Kings - Elizabeth E. MartinezOuttake: Zombies Apocalypse: Understanding the Perceptions of Health vs. Non-Health - Andrew HundChapter 10: Global ConnectionsDirty Pretty Things: The State, Global Migration and Survival in Contemporary Cities - Roberto G. GonzalesSlumdog or Millionaire—May I phone a Friend?: Neoliberalism and Globalizing the American Dream - Alison Moss and Jerome HendricksOuttakes: Arabs in Film - Jack ShaheenChapter 11: Social Change – Technology, Collective Behavior & Social MovementsFrom Earth to Cosmos: Environmental Sociology and Images of the Future in Science Fiction Film - Christopher PodeschiThe Only Possible Solution?: The Challenge of Nonviolence to the Hegemony of Violence in Film - Kathryn Feltey’We Will No Longer Sit Quietly:’ Social Movements through Film - Jeffrey A. LangstraatOuttakes: Thoughts on Activist Movies (Excerpt) - John Farr