Sociology of Hollywood - Gerardo Marti - Davidson College - 2011

April
25
May
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May
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Dr. Marti, Soc 380 Seminar
and Europe: Economics, Culture, National Identity, 1945-95. London: British
Film Institute.
Recommended: K. Moti Gokusling and Wimal Dissanyake. 1998. Indian
Popular Cinema: A Narrative of Cultural Change. Trentham Books.
Recommended: Vijay Mishra. 2001. Bollywood Cinema: Temples of Desire.
Routledge.
Easter Break Please continue readings for next week. None.
Hollywood and Fame:
Propaganda,
Economics, Religion,
Identity, and Social
Change.
Hill and Gibson, Chapter 10.
Gerardo Marti. 2008. Hollywood Faith: Holiness, Prosperity, and Ambition in a
Los Angeles Church. Rutgers. Chapter 9,” Conclusion: Religion in the Era of
Identity Commodification.”
From: Peter C. Rollins (ed.). 1983. Hollywood as Historian: American Film in
a Cultural Context. Univ Press of Kentucky.
-- Chap. 7, Cripps and Culbert, “The Negro Soldier (1944): Film Propaganda in
Black and White. (R)
Richard Maltby. 2003. Hollywood Cinema. Second Edition. Blackwell.
Chapter 9, “Politics.” (skim for highlights)
Optional: Cathy Lynn Grossman, “Churches making mainstream films to
attract souls,” USA TODAY, 7/19/2010.
http://www.usatoday.com/news/religion/2010-07-19churchmovies19_CV_N.htm?csp=usat.me
Recommended: Stephen Vaughn. 1994. Ronald Reagan in Hollywood: Movies
and Politics (Cambridge Studies in the History of Mass Communication).
Cambridge University Press.
Recommended: Clayton R. Koppes and Gregory D. Black. 1982. Hollywood
Goes to War: How Politics, Profits and Propaganda Shaped World War II
Movies. New York: Macmillan.
Book Report (option 1): F. Wasser. 2001. Veni, Vidi, Video: The Hollywood
Empire and the VCR. Univ. Texas Press.
Book Report (option 2): Alan Williams. 2002. Film and Nationalism (A
Volume in the Depth of Field Series). Rutgers.
Book Report (option 3): Mette Hjort and Scott Mackenzie (eds). 2000. Cinema
and Nation. Routledge.
Book Report (option 4): Giuliana Muscio. 1997. Hollywood’s New Deal
(Culture and the Moving Image). Temple University Press.
Pre-Discussion
Portfolio.
Final Review Period. None. Final Thematic
Paper due May
6.
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