Genre, Gender, Race, and World Cinema is an innovative anthology that introduces the study of film theory using the four topics of genre, gender, race, and world cinema, to encourage critical discussion.
- A major anthology geared towards course use, which covers key concepts in film studies through analysis of important films from American, Asian, European and African cinema
- Combines formal, historical, cultural, and theoretical approaches to study
- Analyzes how film represents and influences individual and societal constructs of identity
- Uses selected readings to introduce inter-textual relations between the readings and the films they discuss
- Contains section introductions that map the themes and histories of each topic, and raise theoretical issues specific to each
Preface.
General Introduction: Film and Identities.
Part I: Genres: Ever-Changing Hybrids:.
Introduction and Further Readings.
1. Conclusion: A semantic/syntactic/pragmatic approach to genre: Rick Altman.
2. Film Bodies: Gender, Genre, and Excess: Linda Williams.
3. The Body and Spain: Pedro Almodovar’s All About My Mother: Ernesto R. Acevedo-Muñoz.
4. Enjoy Your Fight!--Fight Club as a Symptom of the Network Society: Bülent Diken and Carsten Bagge Laustsen.
5. Film and Changing Technologies: Laura Kipnis.
6. Postmodern Cinema and Hollywood Culture in an Age of Corporate Colonization: C. Boggs and T. Pollard.
Part II: Genders – More Than Two:.
Introduction and Further Readings.
7. Mobile Identities, Digital Stars, and Post Cinematic Selves: Mary Flanagan.
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