Movies & Mass Culture

by John Belton

Book Overview

Movies and Mass Culture looks at the ways in which American identity shapes and is shaped by motion pictures. Movies serve not only as texts that document who we think we are or were, but they also reflect changes in our self-image, tracing the transformation from one kind of America to another. They assist audiences in negotiating major changes in identity, carrying them across difficult periods of cultural transition so that a more or less coherent...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0813522285
• ISBN13: 9780813522289
• Release Date: October 1995
• Publisher: Rutgers University Press
• Length: 279 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"