Beyond the Stars: Stock characters in American popular film, Volume 1Paul Loukides, Linda K. Fuller Popular Press, 1990 - 254 pages Beyond the Stars contains 20 essays on stock characters, and character conventions which neatly divide into four categories: ethnic and racial stereotyping; social classis; professions; and the idiosyncratic type. Stock figures in American movies are part of our cultural heritage; they deserve an honored place in theliterature of film and popular culture. |
Contents
Foreword to Teachers and Students | 1 |
American Indians in Popular Films | 9 |
Stepin Fetchit and the Politics of Performance 336 | 35 |
Screen Images of Palestinians in the 1980s 49 | 49 |
The Evolving Image | 61 |
The Hostile Redneck and The American Dream | 90 |
198088 | 97 |
The Coach and the Athlete in Football Sports Films | 120 |
Images of NCOs in War Film | 146 |
Images of the Medical Profession in Popular Film | 156 |
The College Professor in Hollywood Film | 170 |
Where the Action | 178 |
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