Beyond the Stars 1
Stock Characters in American Popular Film
Edited by Paul Loukides and Linda K. Fuller
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Stock characters in American popular film offer trenchant insight into both American culture and global perceptions of the United States. The first volume in this series contains twenty essays on stock characters and character conventions that divide into four categories: ethnic and racial stereotyping, social classes, professions, and the idiosyncratic type. All the essays examine popular film as reflections of American attitudes toward various racial or ethnic groups, occupational types, socioeconomic classes, religious groups, and "people not like us."
> From the same authors:
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Ritual Occasions from Baptisms to Funerals in Hollywood Films, 1945-1995
by Parley Ann Boswell and Paul Loukides
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Beyond the Stars 5 (1996)
Themes and Ideologies in American Popular Film
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Beyond the Stars 3 (1993)
The Material World in American Popular Film
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Subject: Sociology
Beyond the Stars 4 (1993)
Locales in American Popular Film
Dir. Paul Loukides and Linda K. Fuller
Subject: Sociology
Beyond the Stars 2 (1991)
Plot Conventions in American Popular Film
Dir. Paul Loukides and Linda K. Fuller
Subject: Technique > Scriptwriting
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