Gender, Ethnicity, and Sexuality in Contemporary American Film

by Jude Davies, Carol R. Smith, Carol R Smith, et al.

Book Overview

Over the past ten years Hollywood has devoted big budgets and established stars to films about controversial issues, while identities previously considered marginal have come into prominence on the big screen. The authors examine the issues raised by these developments, bringing together debates in identity politics with film studies and launching an innovative theorisation of cinematic representation of identity. Movies from Forrest Gump to...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 185331174X
• ISBN13: 9781853311741
• Release Date: March 1998
• Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
• Length: 156 Pages
• Weight: 0.49 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.5" x 8.4"