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Land Cinema in an Age of Extraction (2025)
Publisher: University of California Press
Subject: Sociology
The Natural History of Film Form (2025)
by Pansy Duncan
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Subject: Sociology
Tinsel and Rust (2025)
How Hollywood Manufactured the Rust Belt
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Subject: Countries > United States
The New Italian Cinema of Precarity (2025)
Publisher: Peter Lang
Algerian Cinema in Forty Five Lessons (2025)
Art, Politics and Social Change
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Working Women on Screen (2025)
Paid Labour and Fourth Wave Feminism
Dir. Ellie Tomsett, Nathalie Weidhase and Poppy Wilde
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Subject: Sociology
Mapping Precarity in Contemporary Cinema and Television (2022)
Chronotopes of Anxiety, Depression, Expulsion/Extinction
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Subject: Sociology
Domestic Labor in Twenty-First Century Latin American Cinema (2021)
Dir. Elizabeth Osborne and Sofía Ruiz-Alfaro
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Subject: Countries > Latin America
Prisoners on Prison Films (2020)
by Jamie Bennett and Victoria Knight
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Subject: Countries > Great Britain
Class on Screen (2020)
The Global Working Class in Contemporary Cinema
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Subject: Sociology
Story Movements (2020)
How Documentaries Empower People and Inspire Social Change
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Subject: Genre > Documentary
The Question of Class in Contemporary Latin American Cinema (2020)
by María Mercedes Vázquez Vázquez
Publisher: Lexington Books
Subject: Countries > Latin America
Out of Sync & Out of Work (2018)
History and the Obsolescence of Labor in Contemporary Culture
by Joel Burges
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Subject: Sociology
The Precarious in the Cinemas of the Americas (2018)
Dir. Constanza Burucúa and Carolina Sitnisky
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Subject: Sociology
Filmurbia (2017)
Screening the Suburbs
Dir. David Forrest, Graeme Harper and Jonathan Rayner
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Subject: Sociology
The Chaplin Machine (2016)
Slapstick, Fordism and the International Communist Avant-Garde
Publisher: Pluto Press
Subject: Countries > Russia / USSR
Social Class on British and American Screens (2016)
Essays on Cinema and Television
Dir. Nicole Cloarec, David Haigron and Delphine Letort
Publisher: McFarland & Co
Subject: Sociology
The Hollywood Social Problem Film (1981)
Madness, despair, and politics from the Depression to the fifties
by Peter Roffman and Jim Purdy
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Subject: Countries > United States
The Celluloid Weapon (1972)
Social comment in the American film
Publisher: Beacon Press
Subject: Countries > United States
Cinema and Social Change in Germany and Austria (2026)
Dir. Gabriele Mueller and James M. Skidmore
Publisher: Wilfrid Laurier University Press
Film as an Art of Society (2025)
Aesthetic Innovations and Social Relations
Dir. Lutz Hieber and Rainer Winter
Publisher: Springer
Subject: Sociology
Mixed Feelings in France (2025)
White Femininity and Métissage in French Multicultural Comedy
Publisher: transcript publishing
Screening Solidarity (2024)
Neoliberalism and Transnational Cinemas
by Helga Druxes
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
Subject: Sociology
Film X Autochthonous Struggles Today (2024)
by Nicole Brenez, Jonathan Larcher, Alo Paistik and Skaya Siku
Publisher: Sternberg Press
Subject: Sociology
A Siberian History of Soviet Film (2024)
Manufacturing Visions of the Indigenous Peoples of the North
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
Subject: Countries > Russia / USSR
Film Viewing in Postwar Japan, 1945-1968 (2024)
An Ethnographic Study
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Indian Cinema Today and Tomorrow (2024)
Infrastructure, Aesthetics, Audiences
by S. V. Srinivas, Ratheesh Radhakrishnan, Subhajit Chatterjee and Omita Goyal
Publisher: Routledge
Charlie Chaplin's Modern Times (2024)
The Work of Life in the Age of Mechanical Reproducibility
by Carl Peters
Publisher: Routledge
Subject: One Film > Modern Times
The Routledge Companion to Caste and Film in India (2024)
Dir. Joshil K. Abraham and Judith Misrahi-Barak
Publisher: Routledge
Performing Chinatown (2024)
Hollywood, Tourism, and the Making of a Chinese American Community
by William Gow
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Unhomed (2024)
Cycles of Mobility and Placelessness in American Cinema
Publisher: University of California Press
Subject: Sociology
Screening the Crisis (2024)
US Cinema and Social Change in the Wake of the 2008 Crash
Dir. Hilaria Loyo
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
Subject: Sociology
Mobile Hollywood (2024)
Labor and the Geography of Production
by Kevin Sanson
Publisher: University of California Press
Subject: Economics
Precarity in European Film (2023)
Depictions and Discourses
Dir. Elisa Cuter, Guido Kirsten and Hanna Prenzel
Publisher: De Gruyter
Subject: Sociology
Lagos Never Spoils (2023)
Nollywood and Nigerian City Life
by Connor Ryan
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Political Camerawork (2023)
Documentary and the Lasting Impact of Reenacting Historical Trauma
by D. Andy Rice
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Subject: Genre > Documentary
Screening Social Justice (2023)
Brave New Films and Documentary Activism
Publisher: Duke University Press
Subject: Genre > Documentary
French B Movies (2023)
Suburban Spaces, Universalism, and the Challenge of Hollywood
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Living Labor (2023)
Fiction, Film, and Precarious Work
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Subject: Sociology
Limit Cinema (2023)
Transgression and the Nonhuman in Contemporary Global Film
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
Subject: Theory
Lahore Cinema (2022)
Between Realism and Fable
Publisher: University of Washington Press
Subject: Countries > South Asia
Making Audiences (2022)
A Social History of Japanese Cinema and Media
Publisher: Oxford University Press
On Inuit Cinema / Inuit TakugatsaliuKatiget (2022)
Publisher: Memorial University Press
Post-War Industrial Media Culture in Sweden, 1945-1960 (2021)
New Faces, New Values
by Mats Björkin
Publisher: Amsterdam University Press
Women, Film, and Law (2021)
Cinematic Representations of Female Incarceration
Publisher: University of British Columbia Press
Subject: Sociology
Pictures of Poverty (2021)
The Works of George R. Sims and Their Screen Adaptations
by Lydia Jakobs
Publisher: John Libbey Publishing
Subject: Sociology
Bastards at Work (2021)
Universal Lessons on Bullying from Contemporary French Storytelling
Publisher: Peter Lang
Film Music in the Sound Era (2021)
A Research and Information Guide, Volume 2: People, Cultures, and Contexts
Publisher: Routledge
The Cinema of the Precariat (2021)
The Exploited, Underemployed, and Temp Workers of the World
by Tom Zaniello
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
Subject: Sociology
The Cinema of Sara Gómez (2021)
Reframing Revolution
Dir. Susan Lord and María Caridad Cumaná
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Subject: Director > Sara Gómez
Italian Industrial Literature and Film (2021)
Dir. Carlo Baghetti, Jim Carter and Lorenzo Marmo
Publisher: Peter Lang
Global Perspectives on Amateur Film Histories and Cultures (2021)
Dir. Masha Salazkina and Enrique Fibla
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Subject: Sociology
Movie-Made Appalachia (2021)
History, Hollywood, and the Highland South
Publisher: University of of North Carolina Press
Subject: Countries > United States
The Routledge Companion to New Cinema History (2020)
Dir. Daniel Biltereyst, Richard Maltby and Philippe Meers
Publisher: Routledge
Subject: History of Cinema
Poverty in American Popular Culture (2020)
Essays on Representations, Beliefs and Policy
Dir. Wylie Lenz
Publisher: McFarland & Co
Subject: Sociology
Precarious Intimacies (2020)
The Politics of Touch in Contemporary Western European Cinema
by Maria Stehle and Beverly Weber
Publisher: Northwestern University Press
Chinatown Film Culture (2020)
The Appearance of Cinema in San Francisco's Chinese Neighborhood
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Subject: Sociology
The Process Genre (2020)
Cinema and the Aesthetic of Labor
Publisher: Duke University Press
Subject: Technique > All techniques
The American Midwest in Film and Literature (2020)
Nostalgia, Violence, and Regionalism
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Subject: Countries > United States
Motor City Movie Culture, 1916-1925 (2020)
by Richard Abel
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Subject: Countries > United States
Artmaking in the Age of Global Capitalism (2019)
Visual Practices, Philosophy, Politics
by Jan Bryant
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Subject: Sociology
The Projected Nation (2019)
Argentine Cinema and the Social Margins
by Matt Losada
Publisher: State University of New York Press
African Cinema and Human Rights (2019)
Dir. Mette Hjort and Eva Jørholt
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Women at Work in Twenty-First-Century European Cinema (2019)
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Subject: Sociology
Migrant Anxieties (2019)
Italian Cinema in a Transnational Frame
by Aine O’Healy
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Screening Protest (2018)
Visual narratives of dissent across time, space and genre
Dir. Alexa Robertson
Publisher: Routledge
Subject: Sociology
Media Heterotopias (2018)
Digital Effects and Material Labor in Global Film Production
Publisher: Duke University Press
Subject: Economics
Passionate Detachments (2018)
Technologies of Vision and Violence in American Cinema, 1967-1974
by Amy Rust
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Subject: Sociology
Spectacle of Property (2017)
The House in American Film
Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
Subject: Sociology
Ghettos, Tramps, and Welfare Queens (2017)
Down and Out on the Silver Screen
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Subject: Sociology
Social Class and Television Drama in Contemporary Britain (2017)
Dir. David Forrest and Beth Johnson
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Subject: Countries > Great Britain
Cosmopolitan Film Cultures in Latin America, 1896-1960 (2017)
Dir. Rielle Navitski and Nicolas Poppe
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Subject: Countries > Latin America
The Silent Appalachian (2017)
Wordless Mountaineers in Fiction, Film and Television
Publisher: McFarland & Co
Subject: Sociology
Global Cinematic Cities (2016)
New Landscapes of Film and Media
Dir. Johan Andersson and Lawrence Webb
Publisher: Wallflower Press
Subject: Sociology
Carceral Fantasies (2016)
Cinema and Prison in Early Twentieth-Century America
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Cinema and Society (2016)
Film and Social Change in Pakistan
Dir. Ali Khan and Ali Nobil Ahmed
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Subject: Countries > South Asia
Americanism, Media and the Politics of Culture in 1930s France (2016)
Publisher: University of Wales Press
Subject: Sociology
Capital and Popular Cinema (2016)
The Dollars Are Coming!
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Subject: Economics
Amar Akbar Anthony (2016)
Bollywood, Brotherhood, and the Nation
by William Elison, Christian Lee Novetzke and Andy Rotman
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Subject: One Film > Amar Akbar Anthony
Film and the Working Class (2015)
The Feature Film in British and American Society
by Peter Stead
Publisher: Routledge
Subject: Sociology
Embroidering the Scarlet A (2015)
Unwed Mothers and Illegitimate Children in American Fiction and Film
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Subject: Sociology
Fictions Inc. (2014)
The Corporation in Postmodern Fiction, Film, and Popular Culture
by Ralph Clare
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Subject: Sociology
Screen Culture and the Social Question, 1880-1914 (2014)
Dir. Ludwig Vogl-Bienek and Richard Crangle
Publisher: John Libbey Publishing
Subject: Silent Cinema
The Social Science of Cinema (2013)
Dir. James C. Kaufman and Dean Keith Simonton
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Subject: Sociology
Native Americans on Film (2013)
Conversations, Teaching, and Theory
Dir. M. Elise Marubbio and Eric L. Buffalohead
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
Subject: Sociology
Urban Cinematics (2011)
Understanding Urban Phenomena through the Moving Image
Dir. François Penz and Andong Lu
Publisher: Intellect Books
Subject: Sociology
Women Labor Activists in the Movies (2010)
Nine Depictions of Workplace Organizers, 1954–2005
Publisher: McFarland & Co
Subject: Sociology
La France contemporaine à travers ses films (2010)
Publisher: Focus
(in English and French)
Subject: Sociology
The American Worker on Film (2010)
A Critical History, 1909–1999
by Doyle Greene
Publisher: McFarland & Co
Subject: Sociology
Cinema in a Democratic South Africa (2010)
The Race for Representation
by Lucia Saks
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Bowery to Broadway (2010)
The American Irish in Classic Hollywood Cinema
Publisher: University of Scranton Press
Subject: Sociology
Challenge for Change (2010)
Activist Documentary at the National Film Board of Canada
by Thomas Waugh, Michael Brendan Baker, Ezra Winton and Michael Brendan Baker
Publisher: McGill-Queen's University Press
Subject: Genre > Documentary
The Marx Brothers as Social Critics (2009)
Satire and Comic Nihilism in Their Films
Publisher: McFarland & Co
Subject: Actor > Marx Brothers
Killing the Indian Maiden (2009)
Images of Native American Women in Film
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
Subject: Sociology
Embodied Visions (2009)
Evolution, Emotion, Culture, and Film
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Subject: Sociology
Elia Kazan (2008)
The Cinema of an American Outsider
by Brian Neve
Publisher: I.B.Tauris
Subject: Director > Elia Kazan
Aftermaths (2008)
Exile, Migration, and Diaspora Reconsidered
Dir. Marcus Bullock and Peter Y. Paik
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Subject: Sociology
On the Lam (2008)
Narratives of Flight in J. Edgar Hoover's America
Publisher: University Press of Mississippi
Subject: Sociology
Looking Past the Screen (2007)
Case Studies in American Film History and Method
Dir. Jon Lewis and Eric Smoodin
Publisher: Duke University Press
Subject: Countries > United States
Filming Politics (2007)
Communism and the Portrayal of the Working Class at the National Film Board of Canada, 1939-46
by Malek Khouri
Publisher: University of Calgary Press
On Strike and on Film (2007)
Mexican American Families and Blacklisted Filmmakers in Cold War America
Publisher: University of of North Carolina Press
Subject: Countries > United States
From Kung Fu to Hip Hop (2007)
Globalization, Revolution, and Popular Culture
by M. T. Kato
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Subject: Genre > Martial Arts
A Social History of the Cinema in Wales, 1918-1951 (2006)
Pulpits, Coalpits and Fleapits
Publisher: University of Wales Press
Subject: Sociology
Marked Women (2006)
Prostitutes and Prostitution in the Cinema
Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press
Subject: Sociology
Traditions in World Cinema (2006)
Dir. Linda Badley, R. Barton Palmer and Steven Jay Schneider
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Virtual Voyages (2006)
Cinema and Travel
Dir. Jeffrey Ruoff
Publisher: Duke University Press
Subject: Sociology
Reframing Difference (2005)
Beur and Banlieue Filmmaking in France
by Carrie Tarr
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Popular Cinema in Brazil, 1930-2001 (2004)
by Stephanie Dennison and Lisa Shaw
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Policing Cinema (2004)
Movies and Censorship in Early-Twentieth-Century America
Publisher: University of California Press
Subject: Sociology
Hollywood's Indian (2003)
The Portrayal of the Native American in Film
Dir. Peter C. Rollins and John E. O'Connor
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
Subject: Sociology
Bad (2003)
Infamy, Darkness, Evil, and Slime on Screen
Dir. Murray Pomerance
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Subject: General
Working Stiffs, Union Maids, Reds, and Riffraff (2003)
An Expanded Guide to Films about Labor
by Tom Zaniello
Publisher: ILR Press
Subject: On Films > Movie reviews
The British Working Class in Postwar Film (2003)
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Subject: Countries > Great Britain
Career Movies (2003)
American Business and the Success Mystique
by Jack Boozer
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Subject: Jobs and Trainings
The Cinema of Economic Miracles (2002)
Visuality and Modernization in the Italian Art Film
Publisher: Duke University Press
Working-Class Hollywood (2000)
Silent Film and the Shaping of Class in America
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Subject: Silent Cinema
The New American Cinema (1998)
Dir. Jon Lewis
Publisher: Duke University Press
Subject: Countries > United States
Mists of Regret (1995)
Culture and Sensibility in Classic French Film
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Colonialism and Nationalism in Asian Cinema (1994)
Dir. Wimal Dissanayake
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Southern Mountaineers in Silent Films (1994)
Plot Synopses of Movies About Moonshining, Feuding and Other Mountain Topics, 1904-1929
Publisher: McFarland & Co
Subject: Silent Cinema
We're in the Money (1992)
Depression America and It's Films
Publisher: Ivan R. Dee
Subject: Countries > United States
The Disney Revolt (2023)
The Great Labor War of Animation's Golden Age
Publisher: Chicago Review Press
Subject: Studio > Disney Studios
On the Irish Waterfront (2010)
The Crusader, the Movie, and the Soul of the Port of New York
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Subject: One Film > On the Waterfront
The Screenwriter Activist (2012)
Writing Social Issue Movies
Publisher: Routledge
Subject: Technique > Scriptwriting
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