Gender, ethnicity and sexuality in contemporary American film / Jude Davies, Carol Smith.
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.
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2020.
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Table of 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