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Irish and African American Cinema
Maria Pramaggiore
其他書名
Identifying Others and Performing Identities, 1980-2000
出版State University of New York Press, 2012-02-01
主題Social Science / Ethnic Studies / American / African American & Black StudiesPerforming Arts / Film / History & Criticism
ISBN07914800709780791480076
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=oaIWoAH3OpcC&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋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.