Irish and African American Cinema: Identifying Others and Performing Identities, 1980-2000

by Maria Pramaggiore

Focusing on two film traditions not normally studied together, Maria Pramaggiore examines more than two dozen Irish and African American films, including Do the Right Thing, In the Name of the Father, The Crying Game, Boyz N the Hood, The Snapper, and He Got Game, arguing that these films foreground practices of character identification that complicate essentialist notions of national and racial identity. The porous sense of self associated with moments...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0791470954
• ISBN13: 9780791470954
• Release Date: April 2007
• Publisher: State University of New York Press
• Length: 245 Pages
• Weight: 1.06 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 8.7"