Gender, ethnicity and sexuality in contemporary American film / Jude Davies, Carol Smith.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Davies, Jude, 1965- author.

Smith, Carol R., author.

Contributor:

British Association for American Studies.

Series:

BAAS paperbacks.

BAAS paperbacks

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Motion pictures--United States--History.

Motion pictures.

Sex role in motion pictures.

Ethnicity in motion pictures.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (vii, 156 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Place of Publication:

Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, 2020.

Language Note:

English

System Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

Summary:

Hollywood has recently devoted big budgets and established stars to films about controversial issues, while previously marginal identities have come into prominence. The authors examine the issues these developments raise, bringing together debates in identity politics with film studies.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Acknowledgements

Introduction: The Uses of Identity in Post-Reagan Hollywood Film

1. White Mascu1inity as Paternity: Michael Douglas, Fatherhood and the Uses of the American Family

2. Transactions in Race and Ethnicity: Positive, Negative and Interrogative Images of African Americans on Film

3. Putting the Homo into America: Reconstructing Gay Identities in the National Frame

Conclusion: Aliens from Star Wars to Independence Day

Index

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 07 Oct 2020).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0-7486-7442-X

0-585-10512-X