Pramaggiore Irish and African American Cinema

Identifying Others and Performing Identities, 1980-2000
1. Auflage 2012
ISBN: 978-0-7914-8007-6
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 255 Seiten

Reihe: SUNY series, Cultural Studies in Cinema/Video

How these two cinemas portray complex and changing notions of national and racial identity.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Pramaggiore, Maria

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Volkskunde
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Mentalitäts- und Sozialgeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Introduction

1. Identifying Others

2. Sampling Blackness: Music and Identification in the Films of Neil Jordan and Spike Lee

3. “It’s a Wise Child that Knows His Own Father”: Pregnant Performances and Maternal Mythologies

4. Culturing Violence: Masculine Identification in Irish and African American Gangster Films

5. “Both Sides of the Epic”: Identification in the Nonessentialist Western

Conclusion: Film Identification and Postmodern Identity Politic

Notes
Works Consulted
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Maria Pramaggiore is Associate Professor and Director of Film Studies at North Carolina State University. She is the coauthor (with Tom Wallis) of Film: A Critical Introduction and the coeditor (with Donald E. Hall) of RePresenting Bisexualities: Subjects and Cultures of Fluid Desire.