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Classical Hollywood Cinema and Class

• How class is determined and talked about in the contemporary United States 167
  
• How the American dream, rugged individualism, & Protestant work ethic erase structural barriers 167-170
  
• Labor trends of the Industrial Revolution (and how they contributed to class differences) 171-173
  
• Class themes in early American cinema (how did Charlie Chaplin challenge these themes?) 176
  
• The Horatio Alger myth (be able to give examples from classical and contemporary cinema) 173-178
  
• Influence of 1930s Depression on Hollywood film (and how this influence shifted over time) 184-186