TY  - BOOK
AU  - Davies,Jude
AU  - Smith,Carol R.
TI  - Gender, ethnicity and sexuality in contemporary American film /Jude Davies and Carol R. Smith
SN  - 9781135958305
AV  - PN1995 .G463 2000
PY  - 2000///
CY  - Chicago, Il
PB  - Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers
KW  - Sex role in motion pictures
KW  - Sex in motion pictures
KW  - Minorities in motion pictures
KW  - Homosexuality in motion pictures
KW  - Motion pictures
KW  - United States
KW  - Electronic Books
N1  - 2; 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; 2; b
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