Filming Difference: Actors, Directors, Producers, and Writers on Gender, Race, and Sexuality in Film

Published by University of Texas Press 2009

Filming Difference

Actors, Directors, Producers, and Writers on Gender, Race, and Sexuality in Film

Edited by: Daniel Bernardi

https://doi.org/10.7560/719231

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About this book

Addressing representation and identity in a variety of production styles and genres, including experimental film and documentary, independent and mainstream film, and television drama, Filming Difference poses fundamental questions about the ways in which the art and craft of filmmaking force creative people to confront stereotypes and examine their own identities while representing the complexities of their subjects.

Selections range from C. A. Griffith's "Del Otro Lado: Border Crossings, Disappearing Souls, and Other Transgressions" and Celine Perreñas Shimizu's "Pain and Pleasure in the Flesh of Machiko Saito's Experimental Movies" to Christopher Bradley's "I Saw You Naked: 'Hard' Acting in 'Gay' Movies," along with Kevin Sandler's interview with Paris Barclay, Yuri Makino's interview with Chris Eyre, and many other perspectives on the implications of film production, writing, producing, and acting.

Technical aspects of the craft are considered as well, including how contributors to filmmaking plan and design films and episodic television that feature difference, and how the tools of cinema—such as cinematography and lighting—influence portrayals of gender, race, and sexuality. The struggle between economic pressures and the desire to produce thought-provoking, socially conscious stories forms another core issue raised in Filming Difference. Speaking with critical rigor and creative experience, the contributors to this collection communicate the power of their media.

Author / Editor information

Daniel Bernardi is Director of Film and Media Studies at Arizona State University in Tempe. He is the author of STAR TREK and History: Race-ing Toward Whiteness and editor of several volumes on whiteness and film history.

Reviews

A compelling, fascinating, even inspirational reading experience. By exposing the critical voices of media makers, this volume provides vital discursive tools.

— Bambi Haggins

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
Acknowledgments Publicly Available Download PDF	ix
Different Visions, Revolutionary Perceptions: Race, Gender, and Sexuality in the Work of Contemporary Filmmakers Daniel Bernardi Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
Part 1 Exposing bodies
1 Disability Is Us: Remembering, Recovering, and Remaking the Image of Disability Laura Kissel Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	17
2 “I Saw You Naked”: “Hard” Acting in “Gay” Movies Christopher Bradley Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	41
3 Pain and Pleasure in the Flesh of Machiko Saito’s Experimental Movies Celine Parreñas Shimizu Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	55
Part 2 Border visions
4 Framing Identities / The Evolving Self: Beyond the Academic Director Cristina Kotz Cornejo Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	75
5 Indigenism, (In)Visibility: Notes on Migratory Film John Thornton Caldwell Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	95
6 Traversing Cinematic Borders: An Interview with Paul Espinosa Daniel Bernardi Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	119
Part 3 Global identities
7 Del Otro Lado: Border Crossings, Disappearing Souls, and Other Transgressions C. A. Griffith Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	139
8 Faith in Sexual Difference: The Inquisition of a Creative Process Daniel S. Cutrara Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	165
9 Dead Conversations on Art and Politics: José Guadalupe Posada Interviews John Jota Leaños John Jota Leaños Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	187
Part 4 Independent ambitions
10 Neither Color Blind, Nor Near-Sighted: Representation, Race, and the Role of the Academic Filmmaker Aaron Greer Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	209
11 Performing to Perform the Other: Developing Roles Different from Oneself Sheldon Schiffer Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	223
12 Cinematic Reservations: An Interview with Chris Eyre 2 Yuri Makino Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	247
Part 5 True Hollywood stories
13 “And Maybe There Is a Way to Give Hollywood the Kick in the Ass That It Needs”: An Interview with Filmmaker Karyn Kusama Dan Rybicky Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	263
14 From Selena to Walkout: An Interview with Moctesuma Esparza Kathryn F. Galán Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	289
15 Negotiating the Politics of (In)Difference in Contemporary Hollywood: An Interview with Kimberly Peirce Denise Mann Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	303
16 Televising Difference: An Interview with Paris Barclay Kevin Sandler Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	323
Selected Bibliography Chiara Ferrari Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	343
Contributors Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	357
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	363

Language: English
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Audience: Professional and scholarly;
Pages
- Main content: 390

eBook

Published: December 3, 2009
ISBN: 9780292793552