Discuss the ways in which gender and race intersect with each other. Make reference to the film "Falling Down."
Title: Discuss the ways in which gender and race intersect with each other. Make reference to the film "Falling Down."
Category: /Arts & Humanities/Film & TV
Details: Words: 2626 | Pages: 10 (approximately 235 words/page)
Discuss the ways in which gender and race intersect with each other. Make reference to the film "Falling Down."
Category: /Arts & Humanities/Film & TV
Details: Words: 2626 | Pages: 10 (approximately 235 words/page)
This essay argues that the concepts of femininity and masculinity are culturally and racially specific and can not be read as universal. The notion that there are commonly held ideas about what constitutes being a 'woman' across cultures and races will be rebuffed in this essay using the arguments put forth by Ien Ang. Ang's article, 'I'm a feminist but ... 'Other' women and postnational feminism' puts forth the arguments that mainstream feminism is embodied in …showed first 75 words of 2626 total…
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…showed last 75 words of 2626 total…of the American Family' in Gender, Ethnicity and Sexuality in Contemporary American Film, Edinburgh: Keele University Press, pp. 16-59
Dyer, R. (1997) White, London and New York: Rouledge
Falling Down (motion picture) 1992, Warner Bros. Pictures International, directed by Joel Schumacher
Felski, R. (1997) 'The Doxa of Difference' Signs: Journal of Women and Culture and Society 23, 1, pp. 1-17
Gabriel, J. (1996) 'What do you do when minority means you? Falling Down and the construction of 'whiteness'' Screen 37, 2, pp. 129-150