Performing Whiteness: Postmodern Re/Constructions in the Cinema (SUNY series in Postmodern Culture) by Gwendolyn Audrey Foster (PDF)

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Choice Outstanding Academic TitleExplores how whiteness is culturally constructed in American films.Performing 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.Table of Contents1. Performing Whiteness 2. Inventing Whiteness 3. White Face, White Space 4. The Bad-White Body 5. Performing the “Good” White 6. Performing the “Bad” White 7. Performing White Otherness

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Editorial Reviews: Review Choice Outstanding Academic Title. “Thought-provoking and brilliantly written and illustrated …will make excellent supplementary reading for those studying race and gender in film …Essential.” — CHOICE”This book will leave no one indifferent. It is written with force and informed by references to hundreds of films that span the entire century, from the beginning of cinema up to now. Its views are unremitting and timely.” — Tom Conley, author of Film Hieroglyphs: Ruptures in Classical Cinema”Performing Whitenessoffers a different and innovative treatment of issues of race and ethnicity from the standpoint of examining ‘the assumptions behind whiteness as a cultural norm.’ I was constantly astounded by the breadth of cinematic texts and by the wealth of cultural material cited to illuminate their discussion.’ “– Marcia Landy, author of The Folklore of Consensus: Theatricality in the Italian Cinema, 1930-1943.”As part of the burgeoning field of critical whiteness studies, Gwendolyn Audrey Foster’s Performing Whiteness examines a broad range of films in order to further destabilize assumptions behind whiteness as a cultural norm… Where she most clearly breaks new critical ground and transcends previous studies of whiteness in American Cinema…is through her compelling thesis that whiteness itself is a performance.” Foster “manages to denaturalize white performativity and thus make more visible its enormous ideological power and omnipresense in American cinema and society.” –Film Quarterly From the Author “Performing 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. About the Author Gwendolyn Audrey Foster is an award winning experimental filmmaker and author. Foster is a prolific author in the area of film studies/cultural studies with books and articles on race, gender, and class studies, experimental and avant-garde film, as well as film history and popular culture. Her documentary on female film directors, The Women Who Made the Movies, is distributed by Women Make Movies, Inc. Foster is Willa Cather Professor Emerita in film studies at University of Nebraska. Visit vimeopro.com/gwendolynaudreyfoster/experimental-films for more on Foster’s experimental films.Visit gwendolynaudreyfoster.com for more information on Foster’s publications. Read more

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