Hollywood’s Exploited: Public Pedagogy, Corporate Movies, and Cultural Crisis

Front Matter....Pages i-xxiii
Introduction....Pages 1-10
Front Matter....Pages 11-11
The Imperial System in Media Culture....Pages 13-28
Hollywood and the Working-Class Hero: Diamonds in the Mean Streets of Boston....Pages 29-44
Hollywood’s Missionary Agenda: Christonormativity and Audience Baptism....Pages 45-64
Hollywood Incarcerated and on Death Row: Bjork, Schwarzenegger, and the Pedagogy of Retribution....Pages 65-81
Front Matter....Pages 83-83
From Ms. J. to Ms. G.: Analyzing Racial Microaggressions in Hollywood’s Urban School Genre....Pages 85-103
Hollywood’s Cinema of Ableism: A Disability Studies Perspective on the Hollywood Industrial Complex....Pages 105-114
International Citizenry in the Age of the Spectacle....Pages 115-129
LGBT-Themed Hollywood Cinema after Brokeback Mountain: Renegotiating Hegemonic Representations of Gay Men....Pages 131-149
Front Matter....Pages 151-151
Modes of Youth Exploitation in the Cinema of Larry Clark....Pages 153-169
Sixteen and Pregnant: Media Mommy Tracking and Hollywood’s Exploitation of Teen Pregnancy....Pages 171-188
About Schmidt and About the Hollywood Image of an Aging Actor....Pages 189-200
Front Matter....Pages 201-201
Ecological Connections and Contradictions: Penguins, Robots, and Humans in Hollywood’s “Nature” Films....Pages 203-218
Hollywood and Nonhuman Animals: Problematic Ethics of Corporate Cinema....Pages 219-234
Back Matter....Pages 235-246