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2003 CHOICE Outstanding Academic TitlePerforming Whiteness crosses the boundaries of film study to explore images of the white body in relation to recent theoretical perspectives on whiteness. Drawing on such diverse critical methodologies as postcolonial studies, feminist film criticism, anthropology, and phenomenology, Gwendolyn Audrey Foster examines a wide variety of films from early cinema to the present day in order to explore the ways in which American cinema imposes whiteness as a cultural norm, even as it exposes its inherent instability. In discussions that range from The Philadelphia Story to Attack of the 50 Foot Woman, Foster shows that, though American cinema is an all-white construct, there exists the possibility of a healthy resistance to cultural norms of race, gender, sexuality, and class.

Social problems in motion pictures. --- Race relations in motion pictures. --- Whites in motion pictures. --- Motion pictures --- Whites in motion pictures --- White people in motion pictures.

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Plus de vingt ans après sa parution en 1997, Blanc reste l'ouvrage de référence sur les représentations de la blanchité dans la culture visuelle occidentale. Dans ce classique des études culturelles, Richard Dyer comble un manque dans les études des représentations raciales, traditionnellement focalisées sur les images des groupes minorisés. En analysant la blanchité en tant que telle, il contribue à l'extraire de sa position de norme invisible, qui joue un rôle essentiel dans la consolidation du pouvoir blanc. Après être revenu notamment sur le rôle du christianisme, des théories sur la race et de l'impérialisme dans la construction de la blanchité, Dyer explore ses représentations visuelles, notamment cinématographiques, à travers une histoire technologique et esthétique de la lumière, ainsi que des études de cas, allant des films centrés sur des héros blancs bodybuildés, comme les Rambo ou les péplums italiens, à des classiques de la science-fiction comme Blade Runner ou Alien.

White people in popular culture. --- White people in art. --- White people in motion pictures. --- Blancs --- Médias et culture --- Groupes ethniques --- Dans la culture populaire. --- Dans l'art. --- Au cinéma.

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This book analyzes popular cinematic representations of normative masculinity, exploring the idea that its positioning as the 'ordinary' identity is a source of not only ideological and political strength but also considerable anxiety. Rehling offers lucid accounts of contemporary theoretical debates on masculinity, whiteness, gender, race, and sexuality in popular cinema, and detailed readings of films as diverse as Fight Club, Boys Don't Cry, and The Matrix.

Sociology of the family. Sociology of sexuality --- Film --- Horror films --- Science fiction films --- Fantasy films --- Film remakes --- Motion picture remakes --- Motion pictures --- Moving-picture remakes --- Remakes, Film --- History and criticism. --- Remakes --- Masculinity in motion pictures. --- Heterosexual men in motion pictures. --- Whites in motion pictures. --- Whites in motion pictures --- White people in motion pictures.

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"Whitewashing the Movies addresses the popular practice of excluding Asian actors from playing Asian characters in film. Media activists and critics have denounced contemporary decisions to cast White actors to play Asians and Asian Americans in movies such as Ghost in the Shell and Aloha. The purpose of this book is to apply the concept of "whitewashing" in stories that privilege White identities at the expense of Asian/American stories and characters. To understand whitewashing across various contexts, the book analyzes films produced in Hollywood, Asian American independent production, and US-China co-productions. Through the analysis, the book examines the ways in which whitewashing matters in the project of Whiteness and White racial hegemony. The book contributes to contemporary understanding of mediated representations of race by theorizing whitewashing, contributing to studies of Whiteness in media studies, and producing a counter-imagination of Asian/American representation in Asian-centered stories"--

Asian Americans in motion pictures. --- White people in motion pictures. --- film, films, movies, movie, white, whitewashing, Asian actors, asian, asian characters, asian actresses, media, activist, activism, white actors, Asian Americans, Ghost in the Shell, Aloha, privilege, White identities, AsianAmerican stories, China, US-China co-productions, Whiteness, media studies, White racial hegemony, AsianAmerican representation, Hawai’i, White China, Kim Jong Un, Whitewashing anime, Transnational, White masculine heroism, The Great Wall, Outcast, Enter the Warrior’s Gate, 47 Ronin, The Interview, The Impossible. --- Ethnicity in motion pictures. --- Motion pictures --- Whites in motion pictures. --- History