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Surveys US cinema to argue that the white American self-concept depicted therein is, per Pierre Bourdieu (1977), a "sincere fiction" maintained by film's symbolic labor that conceals the brutality of US race relations & white hegemony behind a mask of naturalness & benevolence. Focus is on the propagandist image of the white messiah in various Hollywood films from Birth of a Nation (1915) to Three Kings (1999). J. Zendejas

This collection, representing the work of scholars from a range of theoretical frameworks and disciplines, examines aspects of the preoccupation with children and childhood in Steven Spielberg's films. It includes essays on such films as Close Encounters of the Third Kind, E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial, Empire of the Sun, Hook, Jurassic Park, and more.