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Filming difference : actors, directors, producers, and writers on gender, race, and sexuality in film

Reflecting diverse voices in film and television, more than a dozen industry professionals explore how their works represent complex identities.
Print Book, English, 2009
University of Texas Press, Austin, Tex., 2009
Interviews
viii, 378 p. : illustrations
9780292719231, 9780292719743, 029271923X, 0292719744
488626749
Exposing bodies
Disability is us: remembering, recovering, and remaking the image of disability / Laura Kissel
"I saw you naked": "hard" acting in "gay" movies / Christopher Bradley
Pain and pleasure in the flesh of Machiko Saito's experimental movies / Celine Parreas Shimizu
Border Visions
Framing identities/ the evolving self: beyond the academic director / Cristina Kotz Cornejo
Indigenism, (in)visibility: notes on migratory film / John Thornton Caldwell
Traversing cinematic borders: an interview with Paul Espinosa / Daniel Bernardi
Global identities
Del otro lado: border crossings, disappearing souls, and other transgressions / C.A. Griffith
Faith in sexual difference: the inquisition of a creative process / Daniel S. Cutrara
Dead conversations on art and politics: José Gudalupe Posada interviews John Jota Leaos / John Jota Leaos
Independent ambitions
Neither color blind, nor near-sighted: representation, race, and the academic filmmaker / Aaron Greer
Performing to perform the other: developing roles different from oneself / Sheldon Schiffer
Cinematic reservations: an interview with Chris Eyre / Yuri Makino
True Hollywood stories
"And maybe there is a way to give Hollywood the kick in the ass that it needs": an interview with Karyn Kusama / Dan Rybicky
From Selena to Walkout: an interview with Moctesuma Esparza / Kathryn F. Galan
Negotiating the politics of (in)difference in contemporary Hollywood: an interview with Kimberly Peirce / Denise Mann
Televising difference: an interview with Paris Barclay / Kevin Sandler
Exposing bodies. Disability is us: remembering, recovering, and remaking the image of disability / Laura Kissel. "I saw you naked": "hard" acting in "gay" movies / Christopher Bradley. Pain and pleasure in the flesh of Machiko Saito's experimental movies / Celine Parreas Shimizu. Border Visions. Framing identities/ the evolving self: beyond the academic director / Cristina Kotz Cornejo. Indigenism, (in)visibility: notes on migratory film / John Thornton Caldwell. Traversing cinematic borders: an interview with Paul Espinosa / Daniel Bernardi. Global identities. Del otro lado: border crossings, disappearing souls, and other transgressions / C.A. Griffith. Faith in sexual difference: the inquisition of a creative process / Daniel S. Cutrara. Dead conversations on art and politics: José Gudalupe Posada interviews John Jota Leaos / John Jota Leaos. Independent ambitions. Neither color blind, nor near-sighted: representation, race, and the academic filmmaker / Aaron Greer. Performing to perform the other: developing roles different from oneself / Sheldon Schiffer. Cinematic reservations: an interview with Chris Eyre / Yuri Makino. True Hollywood stories. "And maybe there is a way to give Hollywood the kick in the ass that it needs": an interview with Karyn Kusama / Dan Rybicky. From Selena to Walkout: an interview with Moctesuma Esparza / Kathryn F. Galan. Negotiating the politics of (in)difference in contemporary Hollywood: an interview with Kimberly Peirce / Denise Mann. Televising difference: an interview with Paris Barclay / Kevin Sandler