Soci 3000: Sociology in Film.
Maymester 2015.
Instructor:
James J. Dowd
Department of Sociology
320 Baldwin Hall
2-3231
Required Readings
Dowd, James J. 2012. “Understanding social mobility through the movies.” Pp. 60-69 in JeanAnne Sutherland and Kathryn Feltey (eds.) Cinematic Sociology: Social Life in Film. 2nd ed.
Los Angeles: Sage.
Dowd, James J. and Nicole R. Pallotta. 2000. “The End of Romance: The Demystification of
Love in the Postmodern Age.” Sociological Perspectives. 43 (Winter): 549-580.
Leonard, Suzanne. 2007. “‘I hate my job, I hate everybody here:’ Adultery, boredom, and the
‘Working Girl’ in Twenty-First-century American cinema. Pp. 100-131 in Yvonne Tasker and
Diane Negra (Eds.) Interrogating Postfeminism: Gender and the Politics of Popular Culture.
Duke Univ. Press.
McCrisken, Trevor B. and Andrew Pepper. 2005. “Hollywood’s post-Cold War history: The
‘righteousness’ of American interventionism.” Pp. 187-210 in American History and
Contemporary Hollywood Film. New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers Univ. Press.
Ortner, Sherry B. 2013. “Chapter Two: Dark Indies.” Pp. 59-90 in Not Hollywood:
Independent Film at the Twilight of the American Dream. Durham: Duke University Press.
Sternheimer. Karen. 2010. “Class in everyday life: Class consciousness.” In Karen
Sternheimer (ed). The Everyday Sociology Reader. N.Y.: W.W. Norton.
Steiger, Kay. 2011. "No Clean Slate: Unshakeable race and gender politics in The Walking
Dead." In James Lowder. Triumph of The Walking Dead. BenBella Books.
Wartenberg, Thomas E. 2001. “Humanizing the Beast: King Kong and the Representation of
Black Male Sexuality." Pp. 157-177 in Daniel Bernardi (ed.) Classic Hollywood, Classic
Whiteness. Minneapolis: Univ. of Minnesota Press.
Wartenberg, Thomas E. 1999. “Politics and race in Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner?.” Pp.
111- 130 in Unlikely Couples: Movie Romance as Social Criticism. Boulder, CO: Westview.