Reversing the lens : ethnicity, race, gender, and sexuality through film

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Reversing the lens : ethnicity, race, gender, and sexuality through film

Jun Xing and Lane Ryo Hirabayashi

University Press of Colorado, c2003

  • : pbk

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Filmography: p. 249-258

Includes bibliographical references and index

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ISBN 9780870817243

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This book brings together noted scholars in history, anthropology, sociology, ethnic studies and film studies to promote film as a powerful classroom 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 radicalisation is either sedimented or contested in the popular imagination. Not limited to classroom use, the book is relevant to anyone who is curious about how video and film can be utilised to expose race as a social construction that -- in dialogue with other potential forms of difference -- is subject to political contestation.
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: pbk ISBN 9780870817250

Description

Reversing the Lens brings together noted scholars in history, anthropology, sociology, ethnic studies and film studies to promote film as a powerful classroom 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. Not limited to classroom use, Reversing the Lens is relevant to anyone who is curious about how video and film can be utilized to expose race as a social construction in dialogue with other potential forms of difference and subject to political contestation.

Table of Contents

  • Foreword Preface Acknowledgments
  • Part I Beyond the Image I Introduction -Lane Ryo Hirabayashi and Jun Xing 2 Media Empowerment, Smashing Stereotypes, and Developing Empathy -Jun Xing
  • Part II Representing Racialized Communities 3 Video Constructions of Asian America: Teaching Montereys Boat People -Malcolm Collier and Lane Ryo Hirabayashi 4 American Indians in Film: Thematic Contours of Cinematic Colonization -Ward Churchill 5 El Espejo/The Mirror: Reflections of Cultural Memory -Carmen Huaco-Nuzum 6 Mississippi Masala: Crossing Desire and Interest -Adeleke Adeeko 7 Skin Deep: Using Video to Teach Race and Critical Thinking -Brenda J. Allen
  • Part III Ethnicity, Race, Gender, Sexuality, and the Politics of Representation 8 Confronting Gender Stereotypes of Asian American Women: Slaying the Dragon -Marilyn C. Alquizola and Lane Ryo Hirabayashi
  • 9 Screens and Bars: Confronting Cinema Representations of Race and Crime -Lee Bernstein 10 The Queering of Chicana Studies: Philosophy, Text, and Image -Elisa Facio 11
  • The Matrix: Using American Popular Film to Teach Concepts of Eastern Mysticism -Jeffrey B. Ho 12 Beyond the Hollywood Hype: Unmasking State Oppression Against People of Color -Brett Stockdill, Lisa Sun-Hee Park, and David N. Pellow
  • Part IV Retrospect and Prospects 13 Self, Society, and the "Other": Using Film to Teach About Ethnicity and Race -Jun Xing 14 The Issue of Reinscription: Pedagogical Responses -Lane Ryo Hirabayashi and Marilyn C. Alquizola
  • Selected Filmography
  • List of Contributors
  • Index

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