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