Irish and African American Cinema
Subtitle: Identifying Others and Performing Identities, 1980-2000 (Suny Series, Cultural Studies in Cinema/Video)
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Published: April 5, 2007
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 245
ISBN-13: 9780791470954
Subjects: Ethnic studies; Film theory & criticism; Social & cultural anthropology; Performing Arts; Pop Arts / Pop Culture; Cinema/Film: Book; Africa; Ireland; Film & Video - History & Criticism; Ethnic Studies - African American Studies - General; African Americans in motion pictures; African Americans in the motion picture industry; Motion pictures
Description: "Focusing on two film traditions not normally studied together, Maria Pramaggiore examines more than two dozen Irish and African American filmes, 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."--Page 4 of cover.