Gender Ethnicity And Sexuality In Contemporary American Film

Author : Davies Jude Davies
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
ISBN 13 : 074867442X
Total Pages : 166 pages
Book Rating : 4.28/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Gender, Ethnicity and Sexuality in Contemporary American Film written by Davies Jude Davies and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2020-03-31 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over the past ten years Hollywood has devoted big budgets and established stars to films about controversial issues, while identities previously considered marginal have come into prominence on the big screen. The authors examine the issues raised by these developments, bringing together debates in identity politics with film studies and launching an innovative theorisation of cinematic representation of identity. Movies from Forrest Gump to Philadelphia, from Malcolm X to Falling Down, have engaged explicitly with notions of multiculturalism and identity politics. This book is concerned pre-eminently with the meanings put into circulation by these mainstream films and audiences' readings of them. It provides a brief and accessible introduction to such issues as arguments over positive and negative images and the relationship between cultural representation and political power.

Author : Jude Davies
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135958378
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.74/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Gender, Ethnicity, and Sexuality in Contemporary American Film written by Jude Davies and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-09-13 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hollywood has devoted big budgets and established stars to films about controversial issues in the last ten years. Identities considered marginal have come into prominence on the big screen. The authors of this title look at the issues raised by these developments, bring together debates in identity politics with film studies, and launch an innovative theorization of the cinematic representation of identity. Movies from Forrest Gump to Philadelphia, from Malcolm X to Falling Down have been specifically concerned with multiculturalism and identity politics. This book is concerned with the meanings put into circulation by these mainstream films and audiences' reactions to them. It provides an accessible introduction to issues such as arguments over positive and negative images and the relationship between cultural representation and political power in American life.

Author : Harry M. Benshoff
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 144435759X
Total Pages : 472 pages
Book Rating : 4.92/5 ( download)

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Download or read book America on Film written by Harry M. Benshoff and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2011-08-26 with total page 472 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: America on Film: Representing Race, Class, Gender, and Sexuality in the Movies, 2nd Edition is a lively introduction to issues of diversity as represented within the American cinema. Provides a comprehensive overview of the industrial, socio-cultural, and aesthetic factors that contribute to cinematic representations of race, class, gender, and sexuality Includes over 100 illustrations, glossary of key terms, questions for discussion, and lists for further reading/viewing Includes new case studies of a number of films, including Crash, Brokeback Mountain, and Quinceañera

Author : C. Richard King
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 0742560813
Total Pages : 205 pages
Book Rating : 4.19/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Animating Difference written by C. Richard King and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2010 with total page 205 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Animating Difference studies the way race, ethnicity, sexuality, and gender are portrayed in recent animated films from 1990 through the present. Ranging from Aladdin to Toy Story to Up, these popular films are key media through which children (and adults) learn about the world and how to behave. While racial and gender stereotypes may not be as obvious as they may have been in films of decades past, they often continue to convey troubling messages and stereotypes in subtle and surprising ways.

Author : Jude Davies
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135958300
Total Pages : 165 pages
Book Rating : 4.05/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Gender, Ethnicity and Sexuality in Contemporary American Film written by Jude Davies and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-09-13 with total page 165 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hollywood has devoted big budgets and established stars to films about controversial issues in the last ten years. Identities considered marginal have come into prominence on the big screen. The authors of this title look at the issues raised by these developments, bring together debates in identity politics with film studies, and launch an innovative theorization of the cinematic representation of identity. Movies from ForrestGump to Philadelphia, from Malcolm X to Falling Down have been specifically concerned with multiculturalism and identity politics. This book is concerned with the meanings put into circulation by these mainstream films and audiences' reactions to them. It provides an accessible introduction to issues such as arguments over positive and negative images and the relationship between cultural representation and political power in American life.

Author : Jun Xing
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.47/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Reversing the Lens written by Jun Xing and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reversing the Lens is relevant to anyone who is curious about how video and film can be utilized to expose ethnicity, race, gender, and sexuality as social constructions subject to political contestation and in dialogue with other potential forms of difference."--BOOK JACKET.

Author : Mia Mask
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136308024
Total Pages : 286 pages
Book Rating : 4.24/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Contemporary Black American Cinema written by Mia Mask and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2012-08-21 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contemporary Black American Cinema offers a fresh collection of essays on African American film, media, and visual culture in the era of global multiculturalism. Integrating theory, history, and criticism, the contributing authors deftly connect interdisciplinary perspectives from American studies, cinema studies, cultural studies, political science, media studies, and Queer theory. This multidisciplinary methodology expands the discursive and interpretive registers of film analysis. From Paul Robeson’s and Sidney Poitier’s star vehicles to Lee Daniels’s directorial forays, these essays address the career legacies of film stars, examine various iterations of Blaxploitation and animation, question the comedic politics of "fat suit" films, and celebrate the innovation of avant-garde and experimental cinema.

Author : Harry M. Benshoff
Publisher : Wiley-Blackwell
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 476 pages
Book Rating : 4.85/5 ( download)

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Download or read book America on Film written by Harry M. Benshoff and published by Wiley-Blackwell. This book was released on 2009-01-20 with total page 476 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides a comprehensive overview of the industrial, socio-cultural, and aesthetic factors that contribute to cinematic representations of race, class, gender, and sexuality. It chronicles the cinematic history of various cultural groups, examines forces and institution bias and stimulates discussion about the relationship between film and American national culture.

Author : Chris Holmlund
Publisher : Psychology Press
ISBN 13 : 0415254868
Total Pages : 322 pages
Book Rating : 4.61/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Contemporary American Independent Film written by Chris Holmlund and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This anthology addresses the salient aesthetic, ideological and economic determinants of independent American cinema over the past three decades.

Author : Jamel Santa Cruze Bell
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134510675
Total Pages : 341 pages
Book Rating : 4.72/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Interpreting Tyler Perry written by Jamel Santa Cruze Bell and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-10-23 with total page 341 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tyler Perry has become a significant figure in media due to his undeniable box office success led by his character Madea and popular TV sitcoms House of Payne and Meet the Browns. Perry built a multimedia empire based largely on his popularity among African American viewers and has become a prominent and dominant cultural storyteller. Along with Perry’s success has come scrutiny by some social critics and Hollywood well-knowns, like Spike Lee, who have started to deconstruct the images in Perry’s films and TV shows suggesting, as Lee did, that Perry has used his power to advance stereotypical depictions of African Americans. The book provides a rich and thorough overview of Tyler Perry’s media works. In so doing, contributors represent and approach their analyses of Perry’s work from a variety of theoretical and methodological angles. The main themes explored in the volume include the representation of (a) Black authenticity and cultural production, (b) class, religion, and spirituality, (c) gender and sexuality, and (d) Black love, romance, and family. Perry’s critical acclaim is also explored.