Irish and African American cinema : identifying others and performing identities, 1980-2000 / Maria...
Irish and African American cinema : identifying others and performing identities, 1980-2000 / Maria...
Irish and African American cinema : identifying others and performing identities, 1980-2000 / Maria Pramaggiore.
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Albany : State University of New York Press, c2007.
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N791.43094/41
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English
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Physical content
ix, 245 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Contents
Ch. 1. Identifying others -- Ch. 2. Sampling blackness : music and identification in the films of Neil Jordan and Spike Lee -- Ch. 3. "It's a wise child that knows his own father" : pregnant performances and maternal mythologies -- Ch. 4. Culturing violence : masculine identification in Irish and Af...
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Publisher
Albany : State University of New York Press, c2007.
Place of Publication
New York (State)
Date Published
c2007.
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Summary
"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 compl...
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Irish and African American cinema : identifying others and performing identities, 1980-2000 / Maria Pramaggiore.
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The SUNY series, cultural studies in cinema/video.
SUNY series, cultural studies in cinema/video.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 209-237) and index.
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N791.43094/41
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74VK7NV4Zv3g
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74VK7NV4Zv3g
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ISBN
9780791470954 (hardcover : alk. paper)
0791470954 (hardcover : alk. paper)
DDC
791.4309417
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991022883029702626
