| Hollywood Shot by Shot: Alcoholism in American Cinema Contributor(s): Denzin, Norman K. (Author) |
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ISBN: 0202303454 ISBN-13: 9780202303451 Publisher: Routledge OUR PRICE: $54.40 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: December 1991 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Performing Arts | Film - General - Language Arts & Disciplines | Communication Studies - Social Science | Sociology - General |
| Dewey: 791.436 |
| LCCN: 90-24077 |
| Series: Communication and Social Order |
| Physical Information: 0.68" H x 6.04" W x 8.94" (0.93 lbs) 310 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: To what extent have Hollywood feature films shaped the meanings that Americans attach to alcoholics, their families, and the alcoholic condition? To what extent has the mass culture of the movie industry itself been conceptually shaped by a broad, external societal discourse? Norman Denzin brings to his life-long study of alcoholism a searching interest in how cultural texts signify and lend themselves to interpretation within a social nexus. Both historical and diachronic in his approach, Denzin identifies five periods in the alcoholism films made between 1932 and the end of the 1980s, and offers a detailed critical reading of thirty-seven films produced during these six decades. |
Contributor Bio(s): Denzin, Norman K.: - Norman K. Denzin is professor of sociology, cinema studies, and interpretive theory at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. He was awarded the George Herbert Mead Award for Lifetime Achievement from the Society for the Study of Symbolic Interaction. He is the author of several books, including The Alcoholic Society, Children and Their Caretakers, Hollywood Shot by Shot, Sociological Methods, and The Values of Social Science. |