Irish and African American cinema [[electronic resource] ] : identifying others and performing identities, 1980-2000 / / Maria Pramaggiore
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Pramaggiore Maria <1960->
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| Titolo: |
Irish and African American cinema [[electronic resource] ] : identifying others and performing identities, 1980-2000 / / Maria Pramaggiore
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| Pubblicazione: | Albany, : State University of New York Press, c2007 |
| Edizione: | 1st ed. |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (257 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 791.4309417 |
| Soggetto topico: | Motion pictures - Ireland |
| African Americans in motion pictures | |
| African Americans in the motion picture industry | |
| Note generali: | Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references (p. 209-237) and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | Front Matter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 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 -- Notes -- Works Consulted -- Index |
| Sommario/riassunto: | 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. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Irish and African American cinema |
| ISBN: | 0-7914-8007-0 |
| 1-4294-7158-1 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910822303803321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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Serie:
SUNY series, cultural studies in cinema/video.