7. Society & the Individual

General

I. C. Jarvie. Movies and Society. New York : Basic Books, 1970.

I. C. Jarvie. Movies as Social Criticism. Metuchen , NJ : Scarecrow, 1978.

Richard Dyer MacCann (ed.) Film and Society. New York : Scribner’s, 1964.

Steven J. Ross. Working-class Hollywood : Silent Film and the Shaping of Class in America . Princeton University Press, 1998.

Journalism

Alex Barris. Stop the Presses! The Newspaperman in American Films. Cranbury , NJ : A.S. Barnes, 1976.

Maxwell Taylor Courson. The Newspaper Movies: An Analysis of the Rise and Decline of the News Gatherer as a Hero in American Motion Pictures, 1900-1974.
[ Ph.D. University of Hawaii , 1976]

Howard Good. The Drunken Journalist: The Biography of a Stereotype. Lanham , MD : Scarecrow, 2000.

Howard Good. Girl Reporter: Gender, Journalism, and the Movies. Lanham , MD : Scarecrow, 1998.

Howard Good. Outcasts: The Image of Journalists in Contemporary Film. Metuchen , NJ : Scarecrow, 1989.

Howard Good & Michael J. Dillon. Media Ethics Goes to the Movies. Westport , CT : Praeger, 2002.

Larry Langman. The Media in the Movies: A Catalog of American Journalism Films, 1900-1996. Jefferson , NC : McFarland, 1998.
[annotated list of 1025 films, arranged alphabetically by title, with a personal name index]

Richard R. Ness. From Headline Hunter to Superman: A Journalism Filmography. Lanham , MD : Scarecrow, 1997.
[annotated list of 2166 films, grouped by year of release & then alphabetically within year by title, with a title index at the end]

Joe Saltzman. Frank Capra and the Image of the Journalist in American Film. Los Angeles : Norman Lear Center , The Annenberg School for Communication, 2002.

Labor & Business

Jack Boozer. Career Movies: American Business and the Success Mystique. Austin : University of Texas Press, 2002.

Tom Zaniello. Working Stiffs, Union Maids, Reds and Riffraff: An Expanded Guide to Films About Labor. Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2003.

Law

Paul Bergman & Michael Asimov. Reel Justice: The Courtroom Goes to the Movies. Kansas City : Andrews & McMeel, 1996.

David A. Black. Law in Film: Resonance and Representation. Urbana : University of Illinois Press, 1999.

John Denvir (ed.) Legal Reelism: Movies as Legal Texts. Urbana : University of Illinois Press, 1996.

Thomas J. Harris. Courtroom’s Finest Hour in American Cinema. Metuchen , NJ : Scarecrow, 1987.

Political Science

Leif Furhammer & Folke Isaksson. Politics and Film. New York : Praeger, 1971 [1968]

Frederic Jameson. The Geopolitical Aesthetic: Cinema and Space in the World System. London : BFI, 1992.

Jonathan Rosenbaum. Movies as Politics. Berkeley : University of California Press, 1997.

Michael Ryan & Douglas Kellner. Camera Politica: The Politics and Ideology of Contemporary Hollywood Film. Bloomington : Indiana University Press, 1990.

Andrew Sarris. Politics and Cinema. New York : Columbia University Press, 1978.

Michael J. Shapiro. Cinematic Political Thought: Narrating Race, Nation and Gender. New York University Press, 1999.

Peter Steven (ed.) Jump Cut: Hollywood , Politics and Counter Cinema. Toronto : Between the Lines, 1985.

Psychology

Glen O. & Krin Gabbard. Psychiatry and the Cinema. 2^nd ed. Washington , DC : American Psychiatric Press, 1999.

Irving Schneider. "Images on the Mind: Psychiatry in the Commercial Film" The American Journal of Psychiatry 134 (1977) 613-620.

Gary Solomon. The Motion Picture Prescription: Watch This Movie and Call Me in the Morning. Santa Rosa , CA : Aslan Publishing, 1995.
[“200 movies to help you heal life’s problems”]

Psychology: Madness

Michael Fleming & Roger Manvell. Images of Madness. London : Associated University Presses, 1985.

Romance & Marriage

I. C. Jarvie. "Case Study -- Films About Marriage" Movies as Social Criticism. Metuchen , NJ : Scarecrow, 1978 (45-81)

Thomas Wartenberg. Unlikely Couples: Movie Romance as Social Criticism. Boulder , CO : Westview,

Sexuality

Thomas R. Atkins (ed.) Sexuality in the Movies. Bloomington : Indiana University Press, 1975.

Parker Tyler . A Pictorial History of Sex in Films. Secaucus , NJ : Citadel, 1974.

Parker Tyler . Sex, Psyche, Etcetera in the Film. New York : Horizon, 1969.

Richard Wortley. Erotic Movies. London : Studio Vista , 1975.

Sexuality: Homosexuality

Richard Barrios. Screened Out: Playing Gay in Hollywood from Edison to Stonewall. New York : Routledge, 2003.

Richard Dyer (ed.) Gays in Film. London : British Film Institute, 1977.

Richard Dyer. Now You See It: Studies on Lesbian and Gay Film. London : Routledge, 1990.

Robert Lang. Masculine Interests: Homoerotics in Hollywood Films. New York : Columbia University Press, 2002.

Vito Russo. The Celluloid Closet. Revised edition. New York : Harper & Row, 1987.

Parker Tyler . Screening the Sexes: Homosexuality in the Movies. New York : Doubleday, 1973.

Social Issues: Nuclear Age

Jack G. Shaheen (ed.) Nuclear War Films. Carbondale : Southern Illinois University Press, 1978.

Jerome F. Shapiro. Atomic Bomb Cinema: The Apocalyptic Imagination on Film. New York : Routledge, 2002.