Unspeakable Images
Ethnicity and the American Cinema
Ethnic issues and the American cinema
Paper – $25
978-0-252-06152-3
Publication Date
Paperback: 01/01/1991
About the Book
Could Woody Allen have made the same movies if he weren't Jewish? Would John Ford's pictures have been different if he weren't an Irish Catholic? Is Spike Lee's blackness a vital part of his moviemaking? In Unspeakable Images, contributors from diverse disciplines explore ethnicity in film as a broad and multilayered concept. The book's first section scrutinizes ethnicity within the context of traditional modes of film analysis---historical, auteurist, and generic. Essays in the second section relate ethnicity to broader areas of critical thought such as cultural studies, ethnography, postmodernism, psychoanalysis, feminism, and class studies, analyzing how each intersects and amplifies the other.Contributors: Paul S. Cowen, David Desser, Lester D. Friedman, Paul Giles, Sumiko Higashi, Ian C. Jarvie, Ana M. Lopez, Gina Marchetti, Charles Musser, Ella Shohat, Vivian Sobchack, Robert Stam, Claudia Springer, Robyn Wiegman, and Mark Winokur
About the Author
Lester D. Friedman is an emeritus professor and former chair of the Media and Society Program at Hobart and William Smith Colleges. His books include Citizen Spielberg, second edition, and Arthur Penn’s Bonnie and Clyde.Also by this author
Reviews
"This is the first collection of essays on ethnicity that uses a sophisticated approach to the subject, taking the field beyond the mere study of positive and negative images."--Patricia Erens, author of The Jew in American CinemaRelated Titles
