... was as hard hit as any other industry by the stock market crash of 1929. But the captains of the film industry took advantage of several of the “New Deal” offers extended in 1933 by President Franklin D. Roosevelt. Owing in part to smart business practices and in large part to an audience desperately in need...

...Crash (Paul Haggis, 2005) follows a range of diverse but intersecting characters who, in their entirety, are meant to represent a social landscape: modern American urban existence. Through an ensemble cast and a multi-story structure, the film depicts a circuitous society in which...

... Lee) and Crash (produced by the white director and screenwriter Paul Haggis). This chapter also examines how white students' responses to Do the Right Thing became increasingly empathetic when Lee's film was viewed in context-rich ethnic-studies courses, where...