Cinematic sociology: social life in film

Foreword / Elizabeth Higginbotham

Introduction / Jean-Anne Sutherland, Kathryn Feltey

Sociological theory. Reading 2.1: Sitting in the dark with Max : classical sociological theory through film / Michael Kimmel

Reading 2.2: Decoding modern society : the Matrix Trilogy and the realm of alienation / Harry F. Dahms

Outtake: Lights, camera, theory : picturing Hollywood through multiple sociological lenses / Mark Rubinfeld

Social class. reading 3.1: Understanding social mobility through movies / James J. Dowd

Reading 3.2: Class in the classroom : Hollywood's distorted view of inequality / Robert C. Bulman

Outtake: Social class in America and people like us / Kathryn Feltey

race and ethnicity. Reading 4.1: Spectacle of Black violence as cinema / Ed Guerrero

Reading 4.2: Don't worry we are all racists! Crash and the politics of privatization / Susan Searls Giroux, Henry A. Giroux

Reading 4.3: Latinos/as through the lens / Carleen R. Basler

Outtake: Pocahontas and intersectionality : a sociologist reflects / Theresa Martinez

Gender and sexuality. Reading 5.1: Masculinity of the governator : muscle and compassion in American politics / Michael A. Messner

Reading 5.2: Constructing empowered women : cinematic images of power and powerful women / Jean-Anne Sutherland

Reading 5.3: Working boundaries : bisexuality and transgender on film / Betsy Lucal, Andrea Miller

Outtake: Geena Davis Institute on gender in media / Jean-Anne Sutherland

Public and private social worlds. Reading 6.1: Service, smiles, and selves : film representations of labor and the sociology of work / Karla A. Erickson

Reading 6.2: Reel families : the delicate balance of family and work in film / Janet Cosbey

Outtake: Seeing the emotional dimensions of work and family life / Rebecca J. erickson

Deviance, crime and law. Reading 7.1: Caped crusader : what Batman films tell us about crime and deviance / robert Wonser, David Boyns

Reading 7.2: Crime, film and criminology / Nicole Rafter

Reading 7.3: Hero, the law, and the people in between : models of the legal system in Hollywood films / Valerie J. Callanan

Outtake: Corporate crime and The informant! / Mike Maume

Sociology and the life course. Reading 8.1: "Look out, a new world, here we come"? Race, racialization, and sexuality in four children's animated films / Carmen R. Lugo-Lugo, Mary K. Bloodsworth-Lugo

Reading 8.2: First comes the baby carriage? Nonnormative transitions to parenthood in film / Jeanne Holcomb

Reading 8.3: Battles and balloons : old manhood in film / Neal King

Outtake: Growth of the nonlinear life trajectory / Erica Orange

Social institutions. Reading 9.1: Seeing religion sociologically through film / Susanne C. Monahan

Reading 9.2: Sport as social institution : football films and the American dream / Jeff Montez de Oca

Reading 9.3: In sickness and in health : medical sociology through celluloid stories / Bernice Pescosolido, Kathleen Oberlin

Reading 9.4: 1991 Iraq invasion in cinematic perspective : Jarhead and Three kings / Elizabeth E. Martinez

Outtake: Zombie apocalypse : understanding the perceptions of health versus nonhealth / Andrew Hund

Global connections. Reading 10.1: Dirty pretty things : migration, the state, and the contexts of survival in the global city / Roberto G. Gonzales

Reading 10.2: Slumdog or millionaire : may I phone a friend? Neoliberalism and globalizing the American dream / Alison R. Moss, Jerome M. Hendricks

Outtake: Arabs and Muslims in Hollywood's Munich and Syriana / Jack G. Shaheen

Social change. Reading 11.1: From earth to cosmos : environmental sociology and images of the future in science fiction film / Christopher W. Podeschi

Reading 11.2: Only possible solution? The challenge of nonviolence to the hegemony of violence in film / Kathryn Feltey

Reading 11.3: "We will no longer sit quietly" : social movements through film / Jeffrey A. Langstraat

Outtake: Excerpt from "thoughts on the spirit of activism in film" / John Farr.