Mixed Race Cinemas
Bloomsbury Academic USA (Verlag)
978-1-5013-5138-9 (ISBN)
Zélie Asava is an Assistant Film Classifier at the Irish Film Classification Office and lectures on Film Studies at University College Dublin. Her monograph The Black Irish Onscreen: Representing Black and Mixed-Race Identities on Irish Film and Television (2013) examines racial representations in Irish screen culture from the 1990s to the present day. She is the co-author of ‘Race and Cinema’ in Oxford Bibliographies Online: Cinema and Media Studies (2013), and has published many essays on race, gender and sexuality in American, Irish, French and Francophone African cinemas in a wide range of journals and edited collections, including: Masculinity and Irish Popular Culture: Tiger’s Tales (2014); World Cinema Directory: Africa (2014); Viewpoints: Theoretical Perspectives on Irish Visual Texts (2013); Images of the Modern Vampire: The Hip and the Atavistic (2013); France’s Colonial Legacies: Memory, Identity and Narrative (2013); World Cinema Directory: France (2013); Contemporary Irish Film: New Perspectives on a National Cinema (2011).
Introduction
1. Race and Ideology
2. Mixed-Race Cinema Histories
3. Interrogating Terminology
4. Methodology and Frameworks
5. Mixed-Race Spaces in French and American Cinema
6. Franco-American Narratives and Beur Cinema
7. Summary of Chapters
Chapter One: the Mixed Question
1. Language, Representation and Casting
2. The Historical Mulatta Screen Stereotype in America
3. The Historical Mulatta Screen Stereotype in France
Chapter Two: Hollywood’s ‘Passing’ Narratives
1. ‘Passing’ Representations as Ideological Construct
2. The Dichotomies of Post-War Mixed-Race Women Onscreen
3. Gender, ‘Passing’ and Love
Chapter Three: The Limits of the Classic Hollywood ‘Tragic Mulatta’
1. Imitation of Life (1934): Interrogating Mixed Identities
2. Casting and Representation
3. Shadows and the Interracial Family
4. Imitation of Life, 1959: Gender, Difference and Voiced Rebellion
5. Performative Identities: Sara Jane, Dandridge and Monroe
Chapter Four: Cultural Shifts: New Waves in Racial Representation
1. Representing ‘Mixed-Race France’
2. Reimagining the Nation: Mixed Families
3. Questioning Mixed Masculinity: Les Trois frères
4. Melodrama, Motherhood and Masks: Métisse
5. Racial-Sexual Mythology and the Interracial Family
Chapter Five: Transnational Families in Drôle de Félix
1. A Search for Identity on the Road
2. Citizenship, Violence and Scopophilia
3. Trauma and Redemption
4. Destabilising the Primary Authority of the Father
5. Reuniting Transnational Families
Conclusion
1. ‘Post-Race’ Politics in America and France
2. Enduring Stereotypes
3. Mixed-Race Sci-Fi
4. Mixed Representational Potentials
Bibliography
Index
Erscheinungsdatum | 01.05.2019 |
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Zusatzinfo | 10 bw illus |
Verlagsort | New York |
Sprache | englisch |
Maße | 152 x 229 mm |
Gewicht | 290 g |
Themenwelt | Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Film / TV |
Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie | |
Sozialwissenschaften ► Kommunikation / Medien ► Medienwissenschaft | |
Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie | |
ISBN-10 | 1-5013-5138-9 / 1501351389 |
ISBN-13 | 978-1-5013-5138-9 / 9781501351389 |
Zustand | Neuware |
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