Genre, Gender, Race, and World Cinema : An Anthology

by Codell, Julie F.

• ISBN13: 9781405132336
• ISBN10: 1405132337
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2006-09-29
• Publisher: Wiley
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Summary

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. 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. Provocative and up to date information, including new thinking on feminisms and masculinity, make this volume a comprehensive and innovative introduction to film theory.

Author Biography

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).

Table of Contents

Preface	viii
General Introduction: Film and Identities	1	(4)
Part I Genres: Ever-changing Hybrids	5	(112)
Introduction and Further Reading	5	(8)
Conclusion: A Semantic/Syntactic/Pragmatic Approach to Genre	13	(10)
Rick Altman
Film Bodies: Gender, Genre, and Excess	23	(15)
Linda Williams
The Body and Spain: Pedro Almodovar's All About My Mother	38	(18)
Ernesto R. Acevedo-Munoz
Enjoy Your Fight! - Fight Club as a Symptom of the Network Society	56	(22)
Bulent Diken
Carsten Bagge Laustsen
Film and Changing Technologies	78	(14)
Laura Kipnis
Postmodern Cinema and Hollywood Culture in an Age of Corporate Colonization	92	(25)
Carl Boggs
Tom Pollard
Part II Genders: More than Two	117	(96)
Introduction and Further Reading	117	(8)
Mobile Identities, Digital Stars, and Post Cinematic Selves	125	(12)
Mary Flanagan
``Nothing Is as It Seems'': Re-viewing The Crying Game	137	(11)
Lola Young
Crying over the Melodramatic Penis: Melodrama and Male Nudity in Films of the 90s	148	(15)
Peter Lehman
Travels with Sally Potter's Orlando: Gender, Narrative, Movement	163	(17)
Julianne Pidduck
Body Matters: The Politics of Provocation in Mira Nair's Films	180	(15)
Alpana Sharma
Cowgirl Tales	195	(18)
Yvonne Tasker
Part III Race: Stereotypes and Multiple Realisms	213	(146)
Introduction and Further Reading	213	(10)
The Family Changes Colour: Interracial Families in Contemporary Hollywood Cinema	223	(20)
Nicola Evans
Black on White: Film Noir and the Epistemology of Race in Recent African American Cinema	243	(28)
Dan Flory
Becoming Asian American: Chan Is Missing	271	(18)
Peter X Feng
The Wedding Banquet: Global Chinese Cinema and the Asian American Experience	289	(24)
Gina Marchetti
Another Fine Example of the Oral Tradition? Identification and Subversion in Sherman Alexie's Smoke Signals	313	(17)
Jhon Warren Gilroy
Playing Indian in the Nineties: Pocahontas and The Indian in the Cupboard	330	(12)
Pauline Turner Strong
``You Are Alright, But . . .'': Individual and Collective Representations of Mexicans, Latinos, Anglo-Americans and African-Americans in Steven Soderbergh's Traffic	342	(17)
Deborah Shaw
Part IV World Cinema: Joining Local and Global	359	(112)
Introduction and Further Reading	359	(10)
Theorizing ``Third-World'' Film Spectatorship: The Case of Iran and Iranian Cinema	369	(19)
Hamid Naficy
The Open Image: Poetic Realism and the New Iranian Cinema	388	(20)
Shohini Chaudhuri
Howard Finn
The Seductions of Homecoming: Place, Authenticity and Chen Kaige's Temptress Moon	408	(16)
Rey Chow
Cultural Identity and Diaspora in Contemporary Hong Kong Cinema	424	(15)
Julian Stringer
``And Yet My Heart Is Still Indian'': The Bombay Film Industry and the (H)Indianization of Hollywood	439	(19)
Tejaswini Ganti
Future Past: Integrating Orality into Francophone West African Film	458	(13)
Melissa Thackway
Acknowledgments	471