Performing whiteness : postmodern re/constructions in the cinema

Summary: Annotation 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.

Record details

OCLC: ocm55896448
ISBN: 9780791487358
ISBN: 0791487350
ISBN: 9780791487358
ISBN: 9780791456286
ISBN: 0791456285
ISBN: 9780791456279
ISBN: 0791456277
ISBN: 9781417524051
ISBN: 1417524057
Physical Description: 1 online resource (xii, 180 pages) : illustrations
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Publisher: Albany : State University of New York Press, 2003.

Content descriptions

Bibliography:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 153-166) and index.
Contents:	Machine generated contents note: 1. Performing Whiteness -- 2. Inventing Whiteness -- 3. White Face, White Space -- 4. Bad-White Body -- 5. Performing the "Good" White -- 6. Performing the "Bad" White -- 7. Performing White Otherness.