{"product_id":"ghettos-tramps-and-welfare-queens-down-and-out-on-the-silver-screen-9780190660727","title":"Ghettos, Tramps, and Welfare Queens: Down and Out on the Silver Screen","description":"\u003cem\u003eGhettos, Tramps, and Welfare Queens: Down \u0026amp; Out on the Silver Screen \u003c\/em\u003eexplores how American movies have portrayed poor and homeless people from the silent era to today. It provides a novel kind of guide to social policy, exploring how ideas about poor and homeless people have been reflected in\u003cbr\u003epopular culture and evaluating those images against the historical and contemporary reality. Richly illustrated and examining nearly 300 American-made films released between 1902 and 2015, \u003cem\u003eGhettos, Tramps, and Welfare Queens\u003c\/em\u003e finds and describes representations of poor and homeless people and the\u003cbr\u003eplaces they have inhabited throughout the century-long history of U.S. cinema. It moves beyond the merely descriptive to deliberate whether cinematic representations of homelessness and poverty changed over time, and if there are patterns to be discerned. Ultimately, the text offers a preliminary\u003cbr\u003eresponse to a handful of harder questions about causation and consequence: Why are these portrayals as they are? Where do they come from? Are they a reflection of American attitudes and policies toward marginalized populations, or do they help create them? What does this all mean for politics and\u003cbr\u003epolicymaking? \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eOf interest to movie buffs and film scholars, cultural critics and historians, policy analysts, and those curious to know more about homelessness and American poverty, \u003cem\u003eGhettos, Tramps, and Welfare Queens\u003c\/em\u003e is a unique window into American politics, history, policy, and culture -- it is an entertaining\u003cbr\u003eand enlightening journey.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Stephen Pimpare\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Oxford University Press, USA\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 06\/22\/2017\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 372\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.49lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.40h x 6.50w x 1.10d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780190660727\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e 12\/01\/2017\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eStephen Pimpare, PhD, is Senior Lecturer in American Politics and Public Policy at the University of New Hampshire. He is the author of two previous books, \u003cem\u003eA People's History of Poverty in America \u003c\/em\u003e(2008), winner of the Michael Harrington Award from the American Political Science Association, and \u003cem\u003eThe\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003eNew Victorians: Poverty, Politics \u0026amp; Propaganda in Two Gilded Ages\u003c\/em\u003e (2004). After thirty years in New York City, he now lives in rural New Hampshire with his husband, two goats, two pigs, twelve chickens, and six turkeys.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThis title is not returnable\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Oxford University Press, USA","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":39929212633203,"sku":"9.78E+12","price":43.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/9255\/0515\/products\/img_e7484208-7984-46f9-a54d-5ded8773a672.jpg?v=1647611623","url":"https:\/\/bookstorenmore.com\/products\/ghettos-tramps-and-welfare-queens-down-and-out-on-the-silver-screen-9780190660727","provider":"Bookstore N More","version":"1.0","type":"link"}