America on Film : Representing Race, Class, Gender, and Sexuality at the Movies

America on Film: Representing Race, Class, Gender, and Sexuality in the Movies is a lively introduction to issues of diversity as represented within the American cinema. provides a comprehensive overview of the industrial, socio-cultural, and aesthetic factors that contribute to cinematic representations of race, class, gender, and sexuality includes over 100 illustrations, glossary of key terms, questions for discussion, and lists for further reading/viewing includes new case studies of a number of films, including Crash, Brokeback Mountain, and Quincea_era

Sean Griffin is Associate Professor of Cinema and Television at Southern Methodist University.
Harry M. Benshoff is Associate Professor of Radio, Television, and Film at the University of North Texas.