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- A major anthology geared towards course use, which covers key concepts in film studies through analysis of important films from American, Asian, European and African cinema
- Combines formal, historical, cultural, and theoretical approaches to study
- Analyzes how film represents and influences individual and societal constructs of identity
- Uses selected readings to introduce inter-textual relations between the readings and the films they discuss
- Contains section introductions that map the themes and histories of each topic, and raise theoretical issues specific to each
- Paperback: 496 pages
- Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell; 1 edition (September 29, 2006)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 1405132337
- ISBN-13: 978-1405132336
- Product Dimensions: 1.1 x 6.7 x 9.5 inches
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General Introduction: Film and Identities.
Part I: Genres: Ever-Changing Hybrids:.
Introduction and Further Readings.
1. Conclusion: A semantic/syntactic/pragmatic approach to genre: Rick Altman.
2. Film Bodies: Gender, Genre, and Excess: Linda Williams.
3. The Body and Spain: Pedro Almodovar’s All About My Mother: Ernesto R. Acevedo-Muñoz.
4. Enjoy Your Fight!--Fight Club as a Symptom of the Network Society: Bülent Diken and Carsten Bagge Laustsen.
5. Film and Changing Technologies: Laura Kipnis.
6. Postmodern Cinema and Hollywood Culture in an Age of Corporate Colonization: C. Boggs and T. Pollard.
Part II: Genders – More Than Two:.
Introduction and Further Readings.
7. Mobile Identities, Digital Stars, and Post Cinematic Selves: Mary Flanagan.
8. “Nothing Is As It Seems”: Re-viewing The Crying Game: Lola Young.
9. Crying over the Melodramatic Penis: Melodrama and Male Nudity in Films of the 90s: Peter Lehman.
10. Travels with Sally Potter’s Orlando: Gender, Narrative, Movement: Julianne Pidduck.
11. Body Matters: the Politics of Provocation in Mira Nair’s Films: Alpana Sharma.
12. Cowgirl Tales: Yvonne Tasker.
Part III: Race Stereotypes and Multiple Realisms:.
Introduction and Further Readings.
13. The Family Changes Color: Interracial Families in Contemporary Hollywood Cinema: Nicola Evans.
14. Black on White: Film Noir and the Epistemology of Race in Recent African American Cinema: Dan Flory.
15. Being Chinese American, Becoming Asian American: Chan is Missing: Peter X Feng.
16. The Wedding Banquet: Global Chinese Cinema and the Asian American Experience: Gina Marchetti.
17. Another Fine Example of the Oral Tradition? Identification and Subversion in Sherman Alexie’s Smoke Signals: Jhon Warren Gilroy.
18. Playing Indian in the Nineties: Pocahontas and The Indian in the Cupboard: Pauline Turner Strong.
19. “You Are Alright, But…”: Individual and Collective Representations of Mexicans, Latinos, Anglo-Americans and African-Americans in Steven Soderbergh's Traffic: Deborah Shaw.
Part IV: World Cinema, Joining Local and Global:.
Introduction and Further Readings.
20. Theorizing ‘Third-World’ Film Spectatorship: Hamid Naficy.
21. The Open Image: Poetic Realism and the New Iranian Cinema: Shohini Chaudhuri and Howard Finn.
22. The Seductions of Homecoming; Place, Authenticity, and Chen Kaige’s Temptress Moon: Rey Chow.
23. Cultural Identity and Diaspora in Contemporary Hong Kong Cinema: Julian Stringer.
24. “And Yet My Heart Is Still Indian”: The Bombay Film Industry and the (H)Indianization of Hollywood: Tejaswini Ganti.
25. Future Past: Integrating Orality into Francophone West African Film: Melissa Thackway.
Acknowledgments

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