Bio–Politicizing Cary Grant – Pressing Race, Class and Ethnicity into Service in â Amerikaâ

Bio-Politicizing Cary Grant explicates the ethnic, racial and sexual ambiguity of Cary Grant's star persona as both an inculcation of (and resistance to) biopolitical imperatives in fifties-era "America".

About the author

Joshua David Gonsalves is an Assistant Professor in the English Department at the American University of Beirut, where he teaches Romanticism, War and Cinema Studies. He has published on Romantic-era Geo/Bio-politics, Speculative Realism and David Lynch's Inland Empire (2006) in David Lynch in Theory (2010).

Summary

Bio-Politicizing Cary Grant explicates the ethnic, racial and sexual ambiguity of Cary Grant's star persona as both an inculcation of (and resistance to) biopolitical imperatives in fifties-era "America".

Product details

• Authors: Joshua Gonsalves, Joshua David Gonsalves
• Publisher: Wiley
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 27.02.2015
• EAN: 9781782797715
• ISBN: 978-1-78279-771-5
• Dimensions: 140 mm x 216 mm x 13 mm
• Weight: 114 g
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Social structure research; USA, SOCIAL SCIENCE / General, HISTORY / Social History, Social & cultural history, Social groups, Social and cultural history, United States of America, USA, c 1950 to c 1959, C 1945 To C 1960, Social groups, communities and identities