This book constitutes a first look at the little-known phenomenon of the Italian/American short film. What becomes apparent is the conspicuous interest these members of the newer generation of Italian/American filmmakers exhibit vis-a-vis their ethnicity, be such films a fiction, a documentary, or a music video. Equally significant is the lens ......
What is the relation between film, race and culture? How does the cinema reproduce and challenge myths of racial segregation and discrimination? In this elegant and insightful book, one of America's leading commentators on culture and society turns his gaze upon cinematic race relations, an area strangely under-played in publications on race and ethnicity. Denzin argues that: * the cinema reflects the creed of treating all persons as equal but, along with the rest of society, struggles to define and implement diversity, pluralism and multiculturalism * Hollywood's cinema of racial violence, the so-called ghetto action film cycle, contributes to the production of new racial discourses which twin race with a culture of violence * the cinema needs to honour racial and ethnic difference He relates the cinema of racial violence to the civil rights movement. The politics of difference means definining race in terms of both an opposition to, and acceptance of, the media's interpretations and representations of the American racial order. Acute, richly illustrated and timely, the book deepens our understanding of the politics of race and the symbolic complexity of segregation and discrimination. It combines the concrete with the theoretical with deft aplomb.
The 34 brief essays in this collection address a variety of topics, from film censorship and preservation to the changing structure and status of independent cinemas, and the continued importance of celebrity and stardom.
The 34 brief essays in this collection address a variety of topics, from film censorship and preservation to the changing structure and status of independent cinemas, and the continued importance of celebrity and stardom.
The very talented, intelligent, and beautiful Susan Sarandon is anything but the typical Hollywood actress. A woman for whom commitment and causes are equally important as her next starring role, Sarandon has been passionately promoting political and social change from the start of her illustrious career. This biography explores her idealism.
Post-war Cinema and Modernity explores the relationship between film and modernity in the second half of the twentieth century. It begins with essays analyzing new post-war forms of film narrative and responses to the filmic innovations of the 1960s and the question of modernism. Pasolini's landmark polemic on the cinema of poetry is a vital ......
