Reversing the lens
Subtitle: ethnicity, race, gender, and sexuality through film
By: Jun Xing and Lane Ryo Hirabayashi.
Contributors: Hirabayashi, Lane Ryo.
Publisher: University Press of Colorado
Published: 2003
Place of publication: Boulder
Language: eng
Number of pages: 270
Subjects: Minorities in motion pictures; Race relations in motion pictures; Racism in motion pictures; Sex role in motion pictures
Description: "Reversing the Lens brings together noted scholars in history, anthropology, sociology, ethnic studies, and film studies to promote film as a powerful educational tool that can be used to foster cross-cultural communication with respect to race and ethnicity. Through such films as Skin Deep, Slaying the Dragon, and Mississippi Masala, contributors demonstrate why and how visual media help delineate various forms of "critical visual thinking" and examine how racialization is either sedimented or contested in the popular imagination.

Reversing the Lens is relevant to anyone who is curious about how video and film can be utilized to expose ethnicity, race, gender, and sexuality as social constructions subject to political contestation and in dialogue with other potential forms of difference."--Jacket.
Notes: Filmography: p. 249-258.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: pt. I. Beyond the image; title: pt. II. Representing racialized communities; title: pt. III. Ethnicity, race, and the politics of representation; title: pt. IV. Retrospect and prospects.