Projections of passing : postwar anxieties and Hollywood films, 1947-1960 / / N. Megan Kelley

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910467185203321
• Autore: Kelley N. Megan
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Jackson : , : University Press of Mississippi, , [2016]; ©2016
• ISBN: 1-4968-0631-X; 1-4968-0629-8
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (289 pages) : illustrations
• Disciplina: 791.43/653
• Soggetti: Identity (Psychology) in motion pictures; Passing (Identity) in motion pictures; Motion pictures - United States - History - 20th century; Motion pictures - Social aspects - United States; Electronic books.
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Sommario/riassunto: "A key concern in postwar America was "who's passing for whom?" Analyzing representations of passing in Hollywood films reveals changing cultural ideas about authenticity and identity in a country reeling from a hot war and moving towards a cold one. After World War II, passing became an important theme in Hollywood movies, one that lasted throughout the long 1950s, as it became a metaphor to express postwar anxiety.The potent, imagined fear of passing linked the language and anxieties of identity to other postwar concerns, including cultural obsessions about threats from within. Passing created an epistemological conundrum that threatened to destabilize all forms of identity, not just the longstanding American color line separating white and black. In the imaginative fears of postwar America, identity was under siege on all fronts. Not only were there blacks passing as whites, but women were passing as men, gays passing as straight, communists passing as good Americans, Jews passing as gentiles, and even aliens passing as humans (and vice versa). Fears about communist infiltration, ; invasion by aliens, collapsing gender and sexual categories, racial ambiguity, and miscegenation made their way into films that featured narratives about passing. N. Megan Kelley shows that these films transcend genre, discussing Gentleman's Agreement, Home of the Brave, Pinky, Island in the Sun, My Son John, Invasion of the Body-Snatchers, I Married a Monster from Outer Space, Rebel without a Cause, Vertigo, All about Eve, and Johnny Guitar, among others.Representations of passing enabled Americans to express anxieties about who they were and who they imagined their neighbors to be. By showing how pervasive the anxiety about passing was, and how it extended to virtually every facet of identity, Projections of Passing broadens the literature on passing in a fundamental way. It also opens up important counter-narratives about postwar America and how the language of identity developed in this critical period of American history"--

Is Taiwan Chinese? [[electronic resource] ] : the impact of culture, power, and migration on changing identities / / by Melissa J. Brown

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910783070403321
• Autore: Brown Melissa J
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Berkeley, : University of California Press, c2004
• ISBN: 0-520-92794-X; 9786612759000; 1-59734-687-X; 1-282-75900-0
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (353 p.)
• Collana: Berkeley series in interdisciplinary studies of China ; ; 2
• Disciplina: 305.89/925
• Soggetti: Taiwan aborigines - Ethnic identity - History; Ethnicity - Taiwan - History; Ethnicity - China - History - 20th century; Nationalism - Taiwan - History - 20th century; Nationalism - China - History - 20th century; Chinese reunification question, 1949-; Tujia (Chinese people) - China - Enshi Tujiazu Miaozu Zizhizhou - Ethnic identity - History - 20th century; Taiwan Relations China; China Relations Taiwan; Enshi Tujiazu Miaozu Zizhizhou (China) Ethnic relations History 20th century
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: What's in a name? : culture, identity, and the "Taiwan problem" -- Where did the aborigines go? : reinstating plains aborigines in Taiwan's history -- "We savages didn't bind feet" : culture, colonial intervention, and long-route identity change -- "Having a wife is better than having a god" : ancestry, governmental power, and short-route identity change -- "They came with their hands tied behind their backs" : forced migrations, identity changes, and state classification in Hubei -- Theory and politics : understanding choices at the border to Han.
• Sommario/riassunto: The "one China" policy officially supported by the People's Republic of China, the United States, and other countries asserts that there is only one China and Taiwan is a part of it. The debate over whether the people of Taiwan are Chinese or independently Taiwanese is, Melissa J. Brown argues, a matter of identity: Han ethnic identity, Chinese national identity, and the relationship of both of these to the new Taiwanese identity forged in the 1990's. In a unique comparison of ethnographic and historical case studies drawn from both Taiwan and China, Brown's book shows how identity is shaped by social experience-not culture and ancestry, as is commonly claimed in political rhetoric.