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Gender, ethnicity and sexuality in contemporary American film /Jude Davies and Carol R. Smith.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: Chicago, Il : Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, (c)2000.Description: 1 online resource (vii, 156 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781135958305
Subject(s): Genre/Form: LOC classification:
  • PN1995 .G463 2000
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Contents:
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
Conclusion: aliens from Star Wars to Independence Day.
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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.

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