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