Performing Whiteness
Postmodern Re/Constructions in the Cinema
1st Edition
Published on 1. February 2012
192 pages
978-0-7914-8735-8 (ISBN)
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Explores how whiteness is culturally constructed in American films.
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Gwendolyn Audrey Foster is Associate Professor of English and Film Studies at the University of Nebraska. Her previous books include Captive Bodies: Postcolonial Subjectivity in Cinema, also published by SUNY Press, and Troping the Body: Gender, Etiquette, and Performance.
Content
List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
1. 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
Works Cited and Consulted
About the Author
Index
Acknowledgments
1. 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
Works Cited and Consulted
About the Author
Index
