Hollywood's Exploited: Public Pedagogy, Corporate Movies, and Cultural Crisis

Foreword; L.Grossberg Preface; T.Miller Introduction; B.Frymer, T.Kashani, A.J. Nocella, II & R.Van Heertum PART I: HOLLYWOOD & IDEOLOGY The Imperial System in Media Culture; C.Boggs Hollywood and the Working Class Hero: Diamonds in the Mean Streets of Boston; R.Van Heertum Hollywood's Missionary Agenda: Christonormativity and Audience Baptism; S.R.Steinberg Hollywood Incarcerated and on Death Row: Bjork, Schwarzenegger and the Pedagogy of Retribution; R.Van Heertum PART II: HOLLYWOOD RE-PRESENTS THE OTHER From Ms. J. to Ms. G.: Analyzing Racial Microaggressions in Hollywood's Urban School Genre; T.J. Yosso & D.Gumaro García Hollywood's Cinema of Ableism: A Disability Studies Perspective on the Hollywood Industrial Complex; T.Kashani & A.J.Nocella, II International Citizenry in the Age of the Spectacle; S.Sharad Rajgopal LGBT-Themed Hollywood Cinema after Brokeback Mountain: Renegotiating Hegemonic Representations of Gay Men; M.A.Raffanti PART III: HOLLYWOOD AGES Modes of Youth Exploitation in the Cinema of Larry Clark; D.Kellner 16 and Pregnant: Media Mommy Tracking and Hollywood's Exploitation of Teen Pregnancy; C.K.Kaltefleiter About Schmidt and About the Hollywood Image of an Aging Actor; K.E.Riggs PART IV: HOLLYWOOD BEYOND THE HUMAN Ecological Connections and Contradictions: Penguins, Robots and Humans in Hollywood's 'Nature' Films; S.Monani & A.Hageman Hollywood and Nonhuman Animals: Problematic Ethics of Corporate Cinema; T.Kashani