Gender, Ethnicity and Sexuality in Contemporary American Film
Title | Gender, Ethnicity and Sexuality in Contemporary American Film PDF eBook |
Author | Davies Jude Davies |
Publisher | Edinburgh University Press |
Pages | 166 |
Release | 2020-03-31 |
Genre | Art |
ISBN | 074867442X |
Over the past ten years Hollywood has devoted big budgets and established stars to films about controversial issues, while identities previously considered marginal have come into prominence on the big screen. The authors examine the issues raised by these developments, bringing together debates in identity politics with film studies and launching an innovative theorisation of cinematic representation of identity. Movies from Forrest Gump to Philadelphia, from Malcolm X to Falling Down, have engaged explicitly with notions of multiculturalism and identity politics. This book is concerned pre-eminently with the meanings put into circulation by these mainstream films and audiences' readings of them. It provides a brief and accessible introduction to such issues as arguments over positive and negative images and the relationship between cultural representation and political power.
Gender, Ethnicity and Sexuality in Contemporary American Film
Title | Gender, Ethnicity and Sexuality in Contemporary American Film PDF eBook |
Author | Jude Davies |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 165 |
Release | 2013-09-13 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 1135958300 |
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.
America on Film
Title | America on Film PDF eBook |
Author | Harry M. Benshoff |
Publisher | John Wiley & Sons |
Pages | 472 |
Release | 2011-08-26 |
Genre | Performing Arts |
ISBN | 144435759X |
America on Film: Representing Race, Class, Gender, and Sexuality in the Movies, 2nd Edition is a lively introduction to issues of diversity as represented within the American cinema. Provides a comprehensive overview of the industrial, socio-cultural, and aesthetic factors that contribute to cinematic representations of race, class, gender, and sexuality Includes over 100 illustrations, glossary of key terms, questions for discussion, and lists for further reading/viewing Includes new case studies of a number of films, including Crash, Brokeback Mountain, and Quinceañera
Reversing the Lens
Title | Reversing the Lens PDF eBook |
Author | Jun Xing |
Publisher | |
Pages | 290 |
Release | 2003 |
Genre | Education |
ISBN |
Reversing the Lens is relevant to anyone who is curious about how video and film can be utilized to expose ethnicity, race, gender, and sexuality as social constructions subject to political contestation and in dialogue with other potential forms of difference."--BOOK JACKET.
Animating Difference
Title | Animating Difference PDF eBook |
Author | C. Richard King |
Publisher | Rowman & Littlefield |
Pages | 205 |
Release | 2010 |
Genre | Performing Arts |
ISBN | 0742560813 |
Animating Difference studies the way race, ethnicity, sexuality, and gender are portrayed in recent animated films from 1990 through the present. Ranging from Aladdin to Toy Story to Up, these popular films are key media through which children (and adults) learn about the world and how to behave. While racial and gender stereotypes may not be as obvious as they may have been in films of decades past, they often continue to convey troubling messages and stereotypes in subtle and surprising ways.
Contemporary American Independent Film
Title | Contemporary American Independent Film PDF eBook |
Author | Chris Holmlund |
Publisher | Psychology Press |
Pages | 322 |
Release | 2005 |
Genre | Performing Arts |
ISBN | 0415254868 |
This anthology addresses the salient aesthetic, ideological and economic determinants of independent American cinema over the past three decades.
Contemporary Black American Cinema
Title | Contemporary Black American Cinema PDF eBook |
Author | Mia Mask |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 286 |
Release | 2012-08-21 |
Genre | Performing Arts |
ISBN | 1136308024 |
Contemporary Black American Cinema offers a fresh collection of essays on African American film, media, and visual culture in the era of global multiculturalism. Integrating theory, history, and criticism, the contributing authors deftly connect interdisciplinary perspectives from American studies, cinema studies, cultural studies, political science, media studies, and Queer theory. This multidisciplinary methodology expands the discursive and interpretive registers of film analysis. From Paul Robeson’s and Sidney Poitier’s star vehicles to Lee Daniels’s directorial forays, these essays address the career legacies of film stars, examine various iterations of Blaxploitation and animation, question the comedic politics of "fat suit" films, and celebrate the innovation of avant-garde and experimental cinema.