Ghettos, Tramps, and Welfare Queens: Down and Out on the Silver Screen
Autor Stephen Pimpareen Limba Engleză Hardback – 12 iul 2017
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780190660727
ISBN-10: 0190660724
Pagini: 372
Dimensiuni: 239 x 165 x 28 mm
Greutate: 0.68 kg
Editura: Oxford University Press
Colecția OUP USA
Locul publicării:New York, United States
ISBN-10: 0190660724
Pagini: 372
Dimensiuni: 239 x 165 x 28 mm
Greutate: 0.68 kg
Editura: Oxford University Press
Colecția OUP USA
Locul publicării:New York, United States
Recenzii
In utilizing film to challenge our understanding of poverty, Pimpare provides an accessible text for retraining our thinking about poverty and unraveling widespread fallacies. Threaded throughout the book is a discussion of how race and gender are intricately bound up with any true discussion of poverty. ... the reader will gain a much more thorough understanding of the role we all play in the cycles of poverty.
Stephen Pimpare's Ghettos, Tramps, and Welfare Queens is a unique jaunt through Hollywood films that feature society's most marginalized and maligned, the homeless and the poor....his insightful examination of the way film (re)presents the poor and homeless is a valuable addition to both political science and cinema scholarship. Overall, Ghettos, Tramps, and Welfare Queens is a perceptive look at the intersections of popular imagery and public policy.
This solidly researched volume, well illustrated and jauntily written, is a work of great originality that should attract a large audience of film scholars, social historians, social scientists, and welfare policy specialists, as well as film aficionados.
. . . its greatest strength is the author's desire not to segregate films from their audiences or their makers. This makes for a book that reflects deeply held beliefs about those less fortunate. Pimpare's conclusion offers separate lessons for filmgoers, filmmakers, policy makers, and journalists - a strong way to end the volume . . . Highly recommended. All readers.
Stephen Pimpare's Ghettos, Tramps, and Welfare Queens is a unique jaunt through Hollywood films that feature society's most marginalized and maligned, the homeless and the poor....his insightful examination of the way film (re)presents the poor and homeless is a valuable addition to both political science and cinema scholarship. Overall, Ghettos, Tramps, and Welfare Queens is a perceptive look at the intersections of popular imagery and public policy.
This solidly researched volume, well illustrated and jauntily written, is a work of great originality that should attract a large audience of film scholars, social historians, social scientists, and welfare policy specialists, as well as film aficionados.
. . . its greatest strength is the author's desire not to segregate films from their audiences or their makers. This makes for a book that reflects deeply held beliefs about those less fortunate. Pimpare's conclusion offers separate lessons for filmgoers, filmmakers, policy makers, and journalists - a strong way to end the volume . . . Highly recommended. All readers.
Notă biografică
Stephen Pimpare, PhD, is Senior Lecturer in American Politics and Public Policy at the University of New Hampshire. He is the author of two previous books, A People's History of Poverty in America (2008), winner of the Michael Harrington Award from the American Political Science Association, and The New Victorians: Poverty, Politics & Propaganda in Two Gilded Ages (2004). After thirty years in New York City, he now lives in rural New Hampshire with his husband, two goats, two pigs, twelve chickens, and six turkeys.