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Ghettos, Tramps, and Welfare Queens: Down and Out on the Silver Screen
Stephen Pimpare
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Description for Ghettos, Tramps, and Welfare Queens: Down and Out on the Silver Screen
Hardback. Num Pages: 352 pages. BIC Classification: JFF; JFFJ; JFS; JFSC; JKS; JKSN; JMH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 156. .
Ghettoes, Tramps, and Welfare Queens: Down & Out on the Silver Screen explores how American movies have portrayed poor and homeless people from the silent era to today. It provides a novel kind of guide to social policy, exploring how ideas about poor and homeless people have been reflected in popular culture and evaluating those images against the historical and contemporary reality. Richly illustrated and examining nearly 300 American-made films released between 1902 and 2015, Ghettoes, Tramps, and Welfare Queens finds and describes representations of poor and homeless people and the places they have inhabited throughout the century-long history ... Read more
Ghettoes, Tramps, and Welfare Queens: Down & Out on the Silver Screen explores how American movies have portrayed poor and homeless people from the silent era to today. It provides a novel kind of guide to social policy, exploring how ideas about poor and homeless people have been reflected in popular culture and evaluating those images against the historical and contemporary reality. Richly illustrated and examining nearly 300 American-made films released between 1902 and 2015, Ghettoes, Tramps, and Welfare Queens finds and describes representations of poor and homeless people and the places they have inhabited throughout the century-long history ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Publisher
Oxford University Press Inc
Condition
New
Number of Pages
376
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780190660727
SKU
V9780190660727
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Ref
99-9
About Stephen Pimpare
Stephen Pimpare, PhD, is Senior Lecturer in American Politics and Public Policy at the University of New Hampshire. He is the author of two previous books, A People's History of Poverty in America (2008), winner of the Michael Harrington Award from the American Political Science Association, and The New Victorians: Poverty, Politics & Propaganda in Two Gilded Ages (2004). After ... Read more
Reviews for Ghettos, Tramps, and Welfare Queens: Down and Out on the Silver Screen
. . . its greatest strength is the author's desire not to segregate films from their audiences or their makers. This makes for a book that reflects deeply held beliefs about those less fortunate. Pimpare's conclusion offers separate lessons for filmgoers, filmmakers, policy makers, and journalists - a strong way to end the volume . . . Highly recommended. All ... Read more