In this Book
- Irish and African American Cinema: Identifying Others and Performing Identities, 1980-2000
- Book
- 2007
- Published by: State University of New York Press
- Series: SUNY series, Cultural Studies in Cinema/Video (discontinued)
summary
Focusing on two film traditions not normally studied together, Maria Pramaggiore examines more than two dozen Irish and African American films, including Do the Right Thing, In the Name of the Father, The Crying Game, Boyz N the Hood, The Snapper, and He Got Game, arguing that these films foreground practices of character identification that complicate essentialist notions of national and racial identity. The porous sense of self associated with moments of identification in these films offers a cinematic counterpart to W. E. B. Du Bois’s potent concept of double consciousness, an epistemological standpoint derived from experiences of colonization, racialization, and cultural disruption. Characters in these films, Pramaggiore suggests, reject the national paradigm of insider and outsider in favor of diasporic both/and notions of self, thereby endorsing the postmodern concept of identity as performance.
Table of Contents
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- ILLUSTRATIONS
- pp. vii-viii
- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
- p. ix
- INTRODUCTION
- pp. 1-12
- CHAPTER ONE: Identifying Others
- pp. 13-35
- CONCLUSION
- pp. 191-194
- WORKS CONSULTED
- pp. 209-237
Additional Information
ISBN
9780791480076
DOI
MARC Record
OCLC
140297675
Pages
255
Launched on MUSE
2012-01-01
Language
English
Open Access
No