| Description |
1 online resource (vii, 156 pages) |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Introduction: the uses of identity in post-Reagan Hollywood film -- White masculinity as paternity: Michael Douglas, fatherhood and the uses of the American family. Wall Street: good capitalism and bad--the all-male family vs. homosexual seduction ; Falling down: identity politics for straight white males ; Disclosure: virtual identities--sexual politics and Pacific Rim economics -- Transactions in race and ethnicity: positive, negative and interrogative images of African Americans on film. The function of race in constructions of American ethnicity ; Negative, positive and interrogative images ; 'The new racism' and cultural politics in the 1990s ; Glory: African American history as male rites of passage ; Tensioned and interlocking identities in Daughters of the dust ; Iconicity: image and narrative in Spike Lee's Malcom X. |
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Putting the homo into America: reconstructing gay identities in the national frame. The celluloid closet and The question of equality: reconstructing gay film history ; Stonewall's romances of resistance ; Tongues untied and national narratives of black and gay identity ; Swoon: murdering stereotypes ; Go fish: lesbian romances of resistance ; Philadelphia: people like us? -- Conclusion: aliens from Star Wars to Independence Day. |
| Summary |
First published in 2000. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Sex role in motion pictures.
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Sex role in motion pictures. |
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Sex in motion pictures.
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Sex in motion pictures. |
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Minorities in motion pictures.
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Minorities in motion pictures. |
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Homosexuality in motion pictures.
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Motion pictures -- United States.
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Homosexuality in motion pictures. |
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United States. |
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Motion pictures. |
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PERFORMING ARTS -- Reference. |
| Added Author |
Smith, Carol R.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Davies, Jude. Gender, ethnicity and sexuality in contemporary American film 1579582273 (OCoLC)43904695 |
| ISBN |
9781135958305 (electronic book) |
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1135958300 (electronic book) |
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1579582273 |
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9781579582272 |
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