Genre, Gender, Race, and World Cinema

Genre Gender Race and World Cinema is an original collection of essays that introduces the study of film theory through contemporary issues. Using topics of genre gender and race this book encourages critical discussion combining formal historical cultural and theoretical approaches to the study of world cinema. It examines issues at the forefront of contemporary film studies: bodies technology mobile identities sexuality transnationality globalism diaspora/home and post-cinematic selves.United by the overarching theme of identity this book analyzes how film represents and influences individual and societal constructs of self. Organized thematically the volume introduces important concepts in film studies while giving exemplary analyses of important films from American Asian European and African cinema. Introductions to each section map the themes and histories of each topic raising theoretical issues specific to each and filmographies are included to augment films discussed in the readings.

Preface General Introduction: Film and Identities

Part I: Genres: Ever-Changing Hybrids: Introduction and Further Readings 1. Conclusion: A semantic/syntactic/pragmatic approach to genre: Rick Altman 2. Film Bodies: Gender Genre and Excess: Linda Williams 3. The Body and Spain: Pedro Almodovar's All About My Mother: Ernesto R. Acevedo-Mu�oz 4. Enjoy Your Fight!--Fight Club as a Symptom of the Network Society: Bulent Diken and Carsten Bagge Laustsen 5. Film and Changing Technologies: Laura Kipnis 6. Postmodern Cinema and Hollywood Culture in an Age of Corporate Colonization: C. Boggs and T. Pollard

Part II: Genders - More Than Two: Introduction and Further Readings 7. Mobile Identities Digital Stars and Post Cinematic Selves: Mary Flanagan 8. "Nothing Is As It Seems": Re-viewing The Crying Game: Lola Young 9. Crying over the Melodramatic Penis: Melodrama and Male Nudity in Films of the 90s: Peter Lehman 10. Travels with Sally Potter's Orlando: Gender Narrative Movement: Julianne Pidduck 11. Body Matters: the Politics of Provocation in Mira Nair's Films: Alpana Sharma 12. Cowgirl Tales: Yvonne Tasker

Part III: Race Stereotypes and Multiple Realisms: Introduction and Further Readings 13. The Family Changes Color: Interracial Families in Contemporary Hollywood Cinema: Nicola Evans 14. Black on White: Film Noir and the Epistemology of Race in Recent African American Cinema: Dan Flory 15. Being Chinese American Becoming Asian American: Chan is Missing: Peter X Feng 16. The Wedding Banquet: Global Chinese Cinema and the Asian American Experience: Gina Marchetti 17. Another Fine Example of the Oral Tradition? Identification and Subversion in Sherman Alexie's Smoke Signals: Jhon Warren Gilroy 18. Playing Indian in the Nineties: Pocahontas and The Indian in the Cupboard: Pauline Turner Strong 19. "You Are Alright But...": Individual and Collective Representations of Mexicans Latinos Anglo-Americans and African-Americans in Steven Soderbergh's Traffic: Deborah Shaw

Part IV: World Cinema Joining Local and Global: Introduction and Further Readings 20. Theorizing 'Third-World' Film Spectatorship: Hamid Naficy 21. The Open Image: Poetic Realism and the New Iranian Cinema: Shohini Chaudhuri and Howard Finn 22. The Seductions of Homecoming; Place Authenticity and Chen Kaige's Temptress Moon: Rey Chow 23. Cultural Identity and Diaspora in Contemporary Hong Kong Cinema: Julian Stringer 24. "And Yet My Heart Is Still Indian": The Bombay Film Industry and the (H)Indianization of Hollywood: Tejaswini Ganti 25. Future Past: Integrating Orality into Francophone West African Film: Melissa Thackway Acknowledgments