1st Edition
Gender, Ethnicity and Sexuality in Contemporary American Film
164 Pages
by
Routledge
164 Pages
by
Routledge
164 Pages
by
Routledge
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Hollywood has devoted big budgets and established stars to films about controversial issues in the last ten years. Identities considered marginal have come into prominence on the big screen. The authors of this title look at the issues raised by these developments, bring together debates in identity politics with film studies, and launch an innovative theorization of the cinematic representation... Read more
Introduction: The Uses of Identity in Post-Reagan Hollywood Film; Chapter 1 White Masculinity as Paternity: Michael Douglas, Fatherhood and the Uses of the American Family; Chapter 2 Transactions in Race and Ethnicity: Positive, Negative and Interrogative Images of African Americans on Film; Chapter 3 Putting the Homo into America:Reconstructing Gay Identities in the National Frame; conclusion Conclusion: Aliens from Star Wars to Independence Day;
Biography
Jude Davies, Carol R. Smith
