Gender, Ethnicity, and Sexuality in Contemporary American Film

ISBN-13: 9781579582272 / Angielski / Twarda / 2000 / 164 str.

Jude Davies; Carol R. Smith

Opis

A series of essays on films such as Wall Street, Disclosure, Glory, Malcolm X, Stonewall, and Philadelphia explore the way that Hollywood engages current debates about multiculturalism. Davies and Smith (both cultural studies, King Alfred's College, England) do not attempt a definitive taxonomy

Spis treści

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;

O autorze

Jude Davies, Carol R. Smith