Sociological theory. Sitting in the dark with Max : classical sociological theory through film / Decoding modern society : the Matrix Trilogy and the realm of alienation / Lights, camera, theory : picturing Hollywood through multiple sociological lenses / Social class. Understanding social mobility through movies / Class in the classroom : Hollywood's distorted view of inequality / Social class in America and people like us / race and ethnicity. Spectacle of Black violence as cinema / Don't worry we are all racists! Crash and the politics of privatization

Latinos/as through the lens / Pocahontas and intersectionality : a sociologist reflects / Gender and sexuality. Masculinity of the governator : muscle and compassion in American politics / Constructing empowered women : cinematic images of power and powerful women / Working boundaries : bisexuality and transgender on film / Geena Davis Institute on gender in media / Public and private social worlds. Service, smiles, and selves : film representations of labor and the sociology of work / Reel families : the delicate balance of family and work in film / Seeing the emotional dimensions of work and family life / Deviance, crime and law^

Caped crusader : what Batman films tell us about crime and deviance / Crime, film and criminology / Hero, the law, and the people in between : models of the legal system in Hollywood films / Corporate crime and The informant! / Sociology and the life course. "Look out, a new world, here we come"? Race, racialization, and sexuality in four children's animated films / First comes the baby carriage? Nonnormative transitions to parenthood in film / Battles and balloons : old manhood in film / Growth of the nonlinear life trajectory / Social institutions. Seeing religion sociologically through film

Sport as social institution : football films and the American dream / In sickness and in health : medical sociology through celluloid stories / 1991 Iraq invasion in cinematic perspective : Jarhead and Three kings / Zombie apocalypse : understanding the perceptions of health versus nonhealth / Global connections. Dirty pretty things : migration, the state, and the contexts of survival in the global city / Slumdog or millionaire : may I phone a friend? Neoliberalism and globalizing the American dream / Arabs and Muslims in Hollywood's Munich and Syriana / Social change. From earth to cosmos : environmental sociology and images of the future in science fiction film^^

Only possible solution? The challenge of nonviolence to the hegemony of violence in film / "We will no longer sit quietly" : social movements through film / Excerpt from "thoughts on the spirit of activism in film"