Gender, ethnicity and sexuality in contemporary American film /Jude Davies and Carol R. Smith.
Davies, Jude.
Gender, ethnicity and sexuality in contemporary American film /Jude Davies and Carol R. Smith. - Chicago, Il : Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, (c)2000. - 1 online resource (vii, 156 pages)
Includes bibliographies and index.
Introduction: the uses of identity in post-Reagan Hollywood film -- White masculinity as paternity: Michael Douglas, fatherhood and the uses of the American family. Wall Street: good capitalism and bad--the all-male family vs. homosexual seduction ; Falling down: identity politics for straight white males ; Disclosure: virtual identities--sexual politics and Pacific Rim economics -- Transactions in race and ethnicity: positive, negative and interrogative images of African Americans on film. The function of race in constructions of American ethnicity ; Negative, positive and interrogative images ; 'The new racism' and cultural politics in the 1990s ; Glory: African American history as male rites of passage ; Tensioned and interlocking identities in Daughters of the dust ; Iconicity: image and narrative in Spike Lee's Malcom X Putting the homo into America: reconstructing gay identities in the national frame. The celluloid closet and The question of equality: reconstructing gay film history ; Stonewall's romances of resistance ; Tongues untied and national narratives of black and gay identity ; Swoon: murdering stereotypes ; Go fish: lesbian romances of resistance ; Philadelphia: people like us? -- Conclusion: aliens from Star Wars to Independence Day.
9781135958305
Sex role in motion pictures.
Sex in motion pictures.
Minorities in motion pictures.
Homosexuality in motion pictures.
Motion pictures--United States.
Electronic Books.
PN1995 / .G463 2000
Gender, ethnicity and sexuality in contemporary American film /Jude Davies and Carol R. Smith. - Chicago, Il : Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, (c)2000. - 1 online resource (vii, 156 pages)
Includes bibliographies and index.
Introduction: the uses of identity in post-Reagan Hollywood film -- White masculinity as paternity: Michael Douglas, fatherhood and the uses of the American family. Wall Street: good capitalism and bad--the all-male family vs. homosexual seduction ; Falling down: identity politics for straight white males ; Disclosure: virtual identities--sexual politics and Pacific Rim economics -- Transactions in race and ethnicity: positive, negative and interrogative images of African Americans on film. The function of race in constructions of American ethnicity ; Negative, positive and interrogative images ; 'The new racism' and cultural politics in the 1990s ; Glory: African American history as male rites of passage ; Tensioned and interlocking identities in Daughters of the dust ; Iconicity: image and narrative in Spike Lee's Malcom X Putting the homo into America: reconstructing gay identities in the national frame. The celluloid closet and The question of equality: reconstructing gay film history ; Stonewall's romances of resistance ; Tongues untied and national narratives of black and gay identity ; Swoon: murdering stereotypes ; Go fish: lesbian romances of resistance ; Philadelphia: people like us? -- Conclusion: aliens from Star Wars to Independence Day.
9781135958305
Sex role in motion pictures.
Sex in motion pictures.
Minorities in motion pictures.
Homosexuality in motion pictures.
Motion pictures--United States.
Electronic Books.
PN1995 / .G463 2000