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- Performing Whiteness: Postmodern Re/Constructions in the Cinema
- Book
- 2003
- Published by: State University of New York Press
- Series: SUNY series in Postmodern Culture
summary
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.
Table of Contents
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- Performing Whiteness
- p. iii
- List of Illustrations
- pp. ix-x
- Acknowledgments
- pp. xi-xii
- 1. Performing Whiteness
- pp. 1-24
- 2. Inventing Whiteness
- pp. 25-46
- 3. White Face, White Space
- pp. 47-66
- 4. The Bad-White Body
- pp. 67-92
- 5. Performing the “Good” White
- pp. 93-115
- 6. Performing the “Bad” White
- pp. 117-135
- 7. Performing White Otherness
- pp. 137-152
- Works Cited and Consulted
- pp. 153-166
- About the Author
- p. 167
Additional Information
ISBN
9780791487358
DOI
MARC Record
OCLC
55896448
Pages
180
Launched on MUSE
2012-01-01
Language
English
Open Access
No