Overview
- First comprehensive and systematic historical survey of American films centering on cross-class romance
- Outlines in detail the most important narrative patterns and thematic concerns of cross-class romance films, emphasizing both continuities and changes in these patterns and concerns over the decades
- Contextualizes the films with reference to the structure and operations of the American film industry, their reception, the personas of the stars who appeared in them, and the social realities of working life, dating, and marriage in American society
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“This book is useful for American cinema scholars for its encyclopedic coverage of these films and for the patterns it observes across the quantity of films it explores. Sharot also provides enough context of both developments in the film industry … . Accomplishing much more than merely a history of a prominent film subgenre, the book joins the complex historical and sociological conversation about class and gender in twentieth-century America.” (Paul Arras, Journal of Popular Culture, 2018)
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Book Title: Love and Marriage Across Social Classes in American Cinema
Authors: Stephen Sharot
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-41799-8
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2017
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-82432-1Published: 11 July 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-41799-8Published: 18 November 2016
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIX, 273
Number of Illustrations: 26 b/w illustrations
Topics: American Cinema and TV, Genre, Gender Studies