Celluloid mischief : deviance and crime on the silver screen / Erich Goode.

• "Celluloid Mischief examines the portrayal of wrongdoing and 'deviant' behavior in film. The premise is that films are material products of both individual and collective imagination that reflect the values and norms of the society that produce them. On this basis, it is possible to perceive how society understands and classifies particular kinds of behavior and assigns or designates classes of people and actions as 'good' or 'bad'. So-called 'wrongdoing' in movies, then, tells us about real-life norms, the violation of those norms, and the efforts to punish and control the perpetrators of those violators. Motion pictures embody information about the social world; they constitute a universe of raw particulars that await excavation and analysis. By applying the appropriate approach, what happens on the screen can guide us to an understanding of society and culture. Films are commercial products; the people who make them are members of a society, influenced by that society, who attempt to appeal to lots of other members of that society by producing something that that they want to see. A society's films tell us a great deal about the taste and proclivities of the society that produce and consume them. Using postwar and contemporary Hollywood cinema as case studies, this book demonstrates the complex and evolving nature of modern America's social, economic, and political values"-- 

Ämnesord

Social problems in motion pictures.  (LCSH)

Deviant behavior in motion pictures.  (LCSH)

Crime in motion pictures.  (LCSH)

Motion pictures  -- Social aspects -- United States -- History. (LCSH)

Motion pictures  -- Political aspects -- United States -- History. (LCSH)

Crime in motion pictures.  (fast)

Deviant behavior in motion pictures.  (fast)

Social problems in motion pictures.  (fast)

Brottsskildringar på film, USA  (sfit)

Motion pictures  -- Political aspects. (fast)

Motion pictures  -- Social aspects. (fast)

United States.  (fast)

Genre

History.  (fast)

Indexterm och SAB-rubrik

Crime in films, USA

Criminals in films, USA

Klassifikation

PN1995.9.S62 (LCC)

791.436556 (DDC)

Imbad (kssb/8 (machine generated))