Description
Book SynopsisReflecting diverse voices in film and television, more than a dozen industry professionals explore how their works represent complex identities.
Trade Review"A compelling, fascinating, even inspirational reading experience. By exposing the critical voices of media makers, this volume provides vital discursive tools." Bambi Haggins, author of Laughing Mad: The Black Comic Persona in Post-Soul America
Table of Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Different Visions, Revolutionary Perceptions: Race, Gender, and Sexuality in the Work of Contemporary Filmmakers (Daniel Bernardi)
- Part 1: Exposing Bodies
- 1. Disability Is Us: Remembering, Recovering, and Remaking the Image of Disability (Laura Kissel)
- 2. "I Saw You Naked": "Hard" Acting in "Gay" Movies (Christopher Bradley)
- 3. Pain and Pleasure in the Flesh of Machiko Saito's Experimental Movies (Celine Parreñas Shimizu)
- Part 2: Border Visions
- 4. Framing Identities / The Evolving Self: Beyond the Academic Director (Cristina Kotz Cornejo)
- 5. Indigenism, (In)Visibility: Notes on Migratory Film (John Thornton Caldwell)
- 6. Traversing Cinematic Borders: An Interview with Paul Espinosa (Daniel Bernardi)
- Part 3: Global Identities
- 7. Del Otro Lado: Border Crossings, Disappearing Souls, and Other Transgressions (C. A. Griffith)
- 8. Faith in Sexual Difference: The Inquisition of a Creative Process (Daniel S. Cutrara)
- 9. Dead Conversations on Art and Politics: José Gudalupe Posada Interviews John Jota Leaños (John Jota Leaños)
- Part 4: Independent Ambitions
- 10. Neither Color Blind, Nor Near-Sighted: Representation, Race, and the Academic Filmmaker (Aaron Greer)
- 11. Performing to Perform the Other: Developing Roles Different from Oneself (Sheldon Schiffer)
- 12. Cinematic Reservations: An Interview with Chris Eyre (Yuri Makino)
- Part 5: True Hollywood Stories
- 13. "And Maybe There Is a Way to Give Hollywood the Kick in the Ass That It Needs": An Interview with Karyn Kusama (Dan Rybicky)
- 14. From Selena to Walkout: An Interview with Moctesuma Esparza (Kathryn F. Galan)
- 15. Negotiating the Politics of (In)Difference in Contemporary Hollywood: An Interview with Kimberly Peirce (Denise Mann)
- 16. Televising Difference: An Interview with Paris Barclay (Kevin Sandler)
- Selected Bibliography, Chiara Ferrari
- List of Contributors
- Index
