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Irish and African American cinema : identifying others and performing identities, 1980-2000
- Title
- Irish and African American cinema : identifying others and performing identities, 1980-2000 / Maria Pramaggiore.
- Author
- Pramaggiore, Maria, 1960-
- Publication
- Albany : State University of New York Press, [2007]
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- Description
- ix, 245 pages : illustrations; 24 cm
- Summary
- "Focusing on two film traditions not normally studied together, Maria Pramaggiore examines more than two dozen Irish and African American filmes, 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."--Page 4 of cover.
- Series Statement
- The SUNY series, cultural studies in cinema/video
- Uniform Title
- SUNY series, cultural studies in cinema/video.
- Subjects
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 209-237) and index.
- Contents
- Identifying others -- Sampling blackness : music and identification in the films of Neil Jordan and Spike Lee -- "It's a wise child that knows his own father" : pregnant performances and maternal mythologies -- Culturing violence : masculine identification in Irish and African American gangster films -- "Both sides of the epic" : identification and the nonessentialist western -- Conclusion : film identification and postmodern identity politics.
- Call Number
- Sc E 16-796
- ISBN
- 9780791470954
- 0791470954
- 0791470962
- 9780791470961
- LCCN
- 2006020755
- OCLC
- 70199862
- Author
- Pramaggiore, Maria, 1960- author.
- Title
- Irish and African American cinema : identifying others and performing identities, 1980-2000 / Maria Pramaggiore.
- Publisher
- Albany : State University of New York Press, [2007]
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Series
- The SUNY series, cultural studies in cinema/videoSUNY series, cultural studies in cinema/video.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 209-237) and index.
- Connect to:
- Research Call Number
- Sc E 16-796MFL 07-3972