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Informationen zum Autor Julie F. Codell is Professor of Art History and English at Arizona State University. She is the author of The Victorian Artist: Artists' Lifewritings in Britain (2003). Klappentext Genre, Gender, Race, and World Cinema is an original collection of essays that introduces the study of film theory through contemporary issues. Using topics of genre, gender, and race, this book encourages critical discussion, combining formal, historical, cultural, and theoretical approaches to the study of world cinema. It examines issues at the forefront of contemporary film studies: bodies, technology, mobile identities, sexuality, transnationality, globalism, diaspora/home, and post-cinematic selves. United by the overarching theme of identity, this book analyzes how film represents and influences individual and societal constructs of self. Organized thematically, the volume introduces important concepts in film studies while giving exemplary analyses of important films from American, Asian, European, and African cinema. Introductions to each section map the themes and histories of each topic, raising theoretical issues specific to each, and filmographies are included to augment films discussed in the readings. Zusammenfassung * A major anthology geared towards course use! which covers key concepts in film studies through analysis of important films from American! Asian! European and African cinema. * Features innovative use of four topics - genre! gender! race! and world cinema - to introduce concepts and encourage critical discussion. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface. General Introduction: Film and Identities. Part I: Genres: Ever-Changing Hybrids:. Introduction and Further Readings. 1. Conclusion: A semantic/syntactic/pragmatic approach to genre: Rick Altman. 2. Film Bodies: Gender! Genre! and Excess: Linda Williams. 3. The Body and Spain: Pedro Almodovar's All About My Mother: Ernesto R. Acevedo-Munoz. 4. Enjoy Your Fight!--Fight Club as a Symptom of the Network Society: Bulent Diken and Carsten Bagge Laustsen. 5. Film and Changing Technologies: Laura Kipnis. 6. Postmodern Cinema and Hollywood Culture in an Age of Corporate Colonization: C. Boggs and T. Pollard. Part II: Genders - More Than Two:. Introduction and Further Readings. 7. Mobile Identities! Digital Stars! and Post Cinematic Selves: Mary Flanagan. 8. "Nothing Is As It Seems": Re-viewing The Crying Game: Lola Young. 9. Crying over the Melodramatic Penis: Melodrama and Male Nudity in Films of the 90s: Peter Lehman. 10. Travels with Sally Potter's Orlando: Gender! Narrative! Movement: Julianne Pidduck. 11. Body Matters: the Politics of Provocation in Mira Nair's Films: Alpana Sharma. 12. Cowgirl Tales: Yvonne Tasker. Part III: Race Stereotypes and Multiple Realisms:. Introduction and Further Readings. 13. The Family Changes Color: Interracial Families in Contemporary Hollywood Cinema: Nicola Evans. 14. Black on White: Film Noir and the Epistemology of Race in Recent African American Cinema: Dan Flory. 15. Being Chinese American! Becoming Asian American: Chan is Missing: Peter X Feng. 16. The Wedding Banquet: Global Chinese Cinema and the Asian American Experience: Gina Marchetti. 17. Another Fine Example of the Oral Tradition? Identification and Subversion in Sherman Alexie's Smoke Signals: Jhon Warren Gilroy. 18. Playing Indian in the Nineties: Pocahontas and The Indian in the Cupboard: Pauline Turner Strong. 19. "You Are Alright! But...": Individual and Collective Representations of Mexicans! Latinos! Anglo-Americans and African-Americans in Steven Soderbergh's Traffic: Deborah Shaw. Part IV: World Cinema! Joining Local and Global:. Introduction and Further Readings. 20. Theorizing 'Third-World' Film Spectatorship: Hamid Naficy. 21. The Open Image: Poetic Realism and the New Iranian Cinema: Shohini Chaudhuri and Howard Finn. 22. The Seductions of Homecoming; Place! Authenticity! and...
