Performing whiteness : postmodern re/constructions in the cinema / Gwendolyn Audrey Foster.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Foster, Gwendolyn Audrey.

Series:

SUNY series in postmodern culture.

The SUNY series in postmodern culture

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

White people in motion pictures.

Race relations in motion pictures.

Social problems in motion pictures.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (193 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Albany : State University of New York Press, c2003.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

2003 CHOICE Outstanding Academic TitlePerforming Whiteness crosses the boundaries of film study to explore images of the white body in relation to recent theoretical perspectives on whiteness. Drawing on such diverse critical methodologies as postcolonial studies, feminist film criticism, anthropology, and phenomenology, Gwendolyn Audrey Foster examines a wide variety of films from early cinema to the present day in order to explore the ways in which American cinema imposes whiteness as a cultural norm, even as it exposes its inherent instability. In discussions that range from The Philadelphia Story to Attack of the 50 Foot Woman, Foster shows that, though American cinema is an all-white construct, there exists the possibility of a healthy resistance to cultural norms of race, gender, sexuality, and class.

Contents:

Front Matter

Contents

Illustrations

Acknowledgments

Performing Whiteness

Inventing Whiteness

White Face, White Space

The Bad-White Body

Performing the “Good” White

Performing the “Bad” White

Performing White Otherness

Works Cited and Consulted

About the Author

Index

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references (p. 153-166) and index.

ISBN:

0-7914-8735-0

1-4175-2405-7

OCLC:

61367671