Filming Difference : : Actors, Directors, Producers, and Writers on Gender, Race, and Sexuality in Film / / ed. by Daniel Bernardi.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Texas Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013
• MitwirkendeR: Bernardi, Daniel,; Bradley, Christopher,; Caldwell, John Thornton,; Cornejo, Cristina Kotz,; Cutrara, Daniel S.,; Ferrari, Chiara,; Galán, Kathryn F.,; Greer, Aaron,; Griffith, C. A.,; Kissel, Laura,; Leaños, John Jota,; Makino, Yuri,; Mann, Denise,; Rybicky, Dan,; Sandler, Kevin,; Schiffer, Sheldon,; Shimizu, Celine Parreñas,
• HerausgeberIn: Bernardi, Daniel,
• Place / Publishing House: Austin : : University of Texas Press, , [2021]; ©2009
• Year of Publication: 2021
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (390 p.)

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.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Different Visions, Revolutionary Perceptions: Race, Gender, and Sexuality in the Work of Contemporary Filmmakers -- Part 1 Exposing bodies -- 1 Disability Is Us: Remembering, Recovering, and Remaking the Image of Disability -- 2 “I Saw You Naked”: “Hard” Acting in “Gay” Movies -- 3 Pain and Pleasure in the Flesh of Machiko Saito’s Experimental Movies -- Part 2 Border visions -- 4 Framing Identities / The Evolving Self: -- 5 Indigenism, (In)Visibility: Notes on Migratory Film -- 6 Traversing Cinematic Borders: An Interview with Paul Espinosa -- Part 3 Global identities -- 7 Del Otro Lado: -- 8 Faith in Sexual Difference: -- 9 Dead Conversations on Art and Politics: -- Part 4 Independent ambitions -- 10 Neither Color Blind, Nor Near-Sighted: -- 11 Performing to Perform the Other: -- 12 Cinematic Reservations: -- Part 5 True Hollywood stories -- 13 “And Maybe There Is a Way to Give Hollywood the Kick in the Ass That It Needs”: -- 14 From Selena to Walkout: An Interview with Moctesuma Esparza -- 15 Negotiating the Politics of (In)Difference in Contemporary Hollywood: -- 16 Televising Difference: -- Selected Bibliography -- Contributors -- Index