Irish and African American cinema : identifying others and performing identities, 1980-2000 / Maria Pramaggiore.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Pramaggiore, Maria, 1960- author.

Series:

SUNY series, cultural studies in cinema/video.

SUNY series, cultural studies in cinema/video

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Motion pictures--Ireland.

Motion pictures.

African Americans in motion pictures.

African Americans in the motion picture industry.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (257 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Albany : State University of New York Press, ©2007.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Focusing on two film traditions not normally studied together, Maria Pramaggiore examines more than two dozen Irish and African American films, including Do the Right Thing, In the Name of the Father, The Crying Game, Boyz N the Hood, The Snapper, and He Got Game, arguing that these films foreground practices of character identification that complicate essentialist notions of national and racial identity. The porous sense of self associated with moments of identification in these films offers a cinematic counterpart to W. E. B. Du Bois's potent concept of double consciousness, an epistemological standpoint derived from experiences of colonization, racialization, and cultural disruption. Characters in these films, Pramaggiore suggests, reject the national paradigm of insider and outsider in favor of diasporic both/and notions of self, thereby endorsing the postmodern concept of identity as performance.

Contents:

Front Matter

Contents

Illustrations

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Identifying Others

Sampling Blackness: Music and Identification in the Films of Neil Jordan and Spike Lee

“It’s a Wise Child that Knows His Own Father”: Pregnant Performances and Maternal Mythologies

Culturing Violence: Masculine Identification in Irish and African American Gangster Films

“Both Sides of the Epic”: Identification and the Nonessentialist Western

Conclusion

Notes

Works Consulted

Index

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references (p. 209-237) and index.

ISBN:

9780791480076

0791480070

9781429471589

1429471581

OCLC:

140297675