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Unspeakable images : ethnicity and the American cinema /
In fourteen chapters on topics ranging from film comedy to reporter movies to Latins in Manhattan, contributors from diverse disciplines explore ethnicity as a broad, complex, multilayered concept. The book's first section scrutinizes ethnicity within the context of traditional modes of film an...
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Urbana :
University of Illinois Press,
[1991]
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Table of Contents:
- Celluloid palimpsests : an overview of ethnicity and the American film / Lester D. Friedman
- Ethnicity, role-playing, and American film comedy : from Chinese laundry scene to Whoopee (1894-1930) / Charles Musser
- Stars and ethnicity : Hollywood and the United States, 1932-51 / Ian C. Jarvie
- Ethnicity, class, and gender in film : DeMille's The cheat / Sumiko Higashi
- The cinema of Catholicism : John Ford and Robert Altman / Paul Giles
- Comprehension and crisis : reporter films and the Third World / Claudia Springer
- Black is white/white is black : "passing" as a strategy of racial compatibility in contemporary Hollywood comedy / Mark Winokur
- Ethnicities-in-relation : toward a multicultural reading of American cinema / Ella Shohat
- Bakhtin, polyphony, and ethnic/racial representation / Robert Stam.
- Ethnicity, the cinema, and cultural studies / Gina Marchetti
- Black bodies/American commodities : gender, race, and the bourgeois ideal in contemporary film / Robyn Wiegman
- Postmodern modes of ethnicity / Vivian Sobchack
- A social-cognitive approach to ethnicity in films / Paul S. Cowen
- The cinematic melting pot : ethnicity, Jews, and psychoanalysis / David Desser
- Are all Latins from Manhattan? : Hollywood, ethnography, and cultural colonialism / Ana M. López.