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Gender, Ethnicity and Sexuality in Contemporary American Film
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Gender, Ethnicity and Sexuality in Contemporary American Film Hardcover - 2000

by Jude Davies; Carol R. Smith


From the publisher

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 of identity.

Movies from ForrestGump to Philadelphia, from Malcolm X to Falling Down have been specifically concerned with multiculturalism and identity politics. This book is concerned with the meanings put into circulation by these mainstream films and audiences' reactions to them. It provides an accessible introduction to issues such as arguments over positive and negative images and the relationship between cultural representation and political power in American life.

First line

This chapter is not about white males and their cinematic representations, but about white masculinity as an exemplification of constructions of gendered identity.

Details

  • Title Gender, Ethnicity and Sexuality in Contemporary American Film
  • Author Jude Davies; Carol R. Smith
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Pages 164
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Routledge
  • Date March 1, 2000
  • ISBN 9781579582272 / 1579582273
  • Weight 0.69 lbs (0.31 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.71 x 5.62 x 0.71 in (22.12 x 14.27 x 1.80 cm)
  • Dewey Decimal Code 791.43

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Citations

  • Reference and Research Bk News, 08/01/2000, Page 182