Performing Whiteness: Postmodern Re-Constructions in the Cinema (Suny Series in Postmodern Culture)
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Explores how whiteness is culturally constructed in American films.
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"Performing Whiteness crosses the boundaries of film study to explore images of the white body in relation to recent theoretical perspectives on whiteness. Drawing on such diverse critical methodologies as postcolonial studies, feminist film criticism, anthropology, and phenomenology, Gwendolyn Audrey Foster examines a wide variety of films from early cinema to the present day in order to explore the ways in which American cinema imposes whiteness as a cultural norm, even as it exposes its inherent instability. In discussions that range from The Philadelphia Story to Attack of the 50 Foot Woman, Foster shows that, though American cinema is an all-white construct, there exists the possibility of a healthy resistance to cultural norms of race, gender, sexuality, and class."
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Performing Whiteness: Postmodern Re-Constructions in the Cinema (Suny Series in Postmodern Culture)
Performing Whiteness: Postmodern Re-Constructions in the Cinema (Suny Series in Postmodern Culture),Gwendolyn Audrey Foster,State University of New York Press,0791456285,Ethnic Studies - General,Film & Video - General,Film & Video - History & Criticism,Performing Arts,Performing Arts/Dance,Pop Arts / Pop Culture,Popular Culture - General,Race relations in motion pictu,Race relations in motion pictures,Social problems in motion pict,Social problems in motion pictures,Whites in motion pictures
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