
About this book
In High Contrast, Sharon Willis examines the dynamic relationships between racial and sexual difference in Hollywood film from the 1980s and 1990s.
Seizing on the way these differences are accentuated, sensationalized, and eroticized on the screen - most often with little apparent regard for the political context in which they operate - Willis restores that context through close readings of a range of movies from cinematic blockbusters to the work of the new auteurs, Spike Lee, David Lynch, and Quentin Tarantino.
Subjects
African Americans in motion picturesSex role in motion picturesWomen in motion picturesMotion pictures, historyMotion pictures, united statesPn1995.9.s47 w56 1997791.43/655Sex role & the mediaGeneral & miscellaneous african american historySocial themes in motion picturesPeoples & cultures in filmWomen and film