Author

Publication

1997 - Duke University Press, Durham, N.C, North Carolina

Language

English

Word Count

66,500 words, Guess

Page Count

266 pages

Identifiers

and 4 more
  • Library of Congress Control Number97013147
  • Goodreads4522286
  • WikidataQ57231095
  • LibraryThing186065

Classifications

  • DDC791.43/655
  • LCCPN1995.9.S47 W56 1997

Description

In High Contrast, Sharon Willis examines the dynamic relationships between racial and sexual difference in Hollywood film from the 1980s and 1990s. Seizing on the way these differences are accentuated, sensationalized, and eroticized on the screen - most often with little apparent regard for the political context in which they operate - Willis restores that context through close readings of a range of movies from cinematic blockbusters to the work of the new auteurs, Spike Lee, David Lynch, and Quentin Tarantino.

Subjects

Topics

791.43/655Women and filmSex role & the mediaPn1995.9.s47 w56 1997Women in motion picturesMotion pictures, historyPeoples & cultures in film

Other Editions

  • High contrast: race and gender in contemporary Hollywood filmsDuke University Press1997-01-01

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