ABSTRACT
First published in 1998. This is Volume IX, of nine in the Sociology of Culture series and looks at the a comparative essay on the structure and functioning of a major entertainment industry: the cinema.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
chapter |21 pages
Introduction
The Relevance of Cinema and of Sociology in General to the Sociology of the Medium-at-Large
part |60 pages
The Sociology of an Industry: Who Makes Films, How and Why?
chapter |8 pages
The Development of an Industry
chapter |16 pages
The Present Structure of Capitalist Production
chapter |15 pages
Roles and Recruitment to them
chapter |6 pages
Case Studies and Recapitulation
part |35 pages
The Sociology of an Audience: Who Sees Films and Why?
chapter |12 pages
The Role of the Audience in the Medium-at-Large
chapter |9 pages
Cinemagoing as a Social Institution
chapter |12 pages
The Screen Audiences
part |58 pages
The Sociology of an Experience: Who Sees Films and Why?
chapter |11 pages
The Role of Experience in the Medium-at-Large
chapter |19 pages
The Sociology of the Screen World
chapter |12 pages
The Western and the Gangster Film: The Sociology of Some Myths
chapter |9 pages
The Gangster-Spy
chapter |5 pages
The Musical
part |29 pages
The Sociology of Evaluation: How do We Learn about, and Appraise, Films?
