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Through an analysis of hundreds of Hollywood movies, this book
examines some of the most contentious social issues of our time,
including racism, social inequality, sexism, and gerontophobia.
With studies of some of the most enduring film genres in
Hollywood's history, including romantic films such as Casablanca,
war movies from World War II through the Iraq and Afghanistan
conflicts, alienation films, including Five Easy Pieces and Lost in
Translation, the school movie, from Goodbye, Mr. Chips to other
films set in academia, including Dead Poets Society and Dangerous
Minds, the book outlines and demonstrates the sociological approach
to viewing films and highlights the socially conservative nature of
much Hollywood movie production, which draws on common stereotypes
and reinforces dominant cultural values - but is also capable of
challenging and serving to change them.
Through an analysis of hundreds of Hollywood movies, this book
examines some of the most contentious social issues of our time,
including racism, social inequality, sexism, and gerontophobia.
With studies of some of the most enduring film genres in
Hollywood's history, including romantic films such as Casablanca,
war movies from World War II through the Iraq and Afghanistan
conflicts, alienation films, including Five Easy Pieces and Lost in
Translation, the school movie, from Goodbye, Mr. Chips to other
films set in academia, including Dead Poets Society and Dangerous
Minds, the book outlines and demonstrates the sociological approach
to viewing films and highlights the socially conservative nature of
much Hollywood movie production, which draws on common stereotypes
and reinforces dominant cultural values - but is also capable of
challenging and serving to change them.
The culmination of more than ten years of research carried out in
over 50 countries around the world, this volume shows how the
forces of modernization on the developing countries change the
attitudes and behavior of men acting in their roles as husbands and
fathers, as members of ethnic communities, and as citizens of
emerging nation-states. The research gathered here demonstrates
that the impact of modern institutions on individual psychic
adjustment is much less severe than is often imagined and the book
explores the meaning of modernization in human terms. In addition,
for the first time the theory and method for studying individual
modernity are applied to the so-called socialist countries. Inkeles
et al. highlight the implications of individual modernity for
understanding contemporary and future social change in both
developing and advanced countries. "Exploring Individual Modernity"
completes the portrait of "modern man" first sketched in "Becoming
Modern", the first book to report on the findings on Social and
cultural Aspects of Modernization.
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