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

Acknowledgments Different Visions, Revolutionary Perceptions: Race, Gender, and Sexuality in the Work of Contemporary Filmmakers / Daniel Bernardi Part 1: Exposing Bodies 1. Disability Is Us: Remembering, Recovering, and Remaking the Image of Disability / Laura Kissel; 2. "I Saw You Naked": "Hard" Acting in "Gay" Movies / Christopher Bradley; 3. Pain and Pleasure in the Flesh of Machiko Saito's Experimental Movies / Celine Parrenas Shimizu Part 2: Border Visions 4. Framing Identities / The Evolving Self: Beyond the Academic Director / Cristina Kotz Cornejo; 5. Indigenism, (In)Visibility: Notes on Migratory Film / John Thornton Caldwell; 6. Traversing Cinematic Borders: An Interview with Paul Espinosa / Daniel Bernardi Part 3: Global Identities 7. Del Otro Lado: Border Crossings, Disappearing Souls, and Other Transgressions / C. A. Griffith; 8. Faith in Sexual Difference: The Inquisition of a Creative Process / Daniel S. Cutrara; 9. Dead Conversations on Art and Politics: Jose Gudalupe Posada Interviews John Jota Leanos / John Jota Leanos Part 4: Independent Ambitions 10. Neither Color Blind, Nor Near-Sighted: Representation, Race, and the Academic Filmmaker / Aaron Greer; 11. Performing to Perform the Other: Developing Roles Different from Oneself / Sheldon Schiffer; 12. Cinematic Reservations: An Interview with Chris Eyre / Yuri Makino 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 Karyn Kusama / Dan Rybicky; 14. From Selena to Walkout: An Interview with Moctesuma Esparza / Kathryn F. Galan; 15. Negotiating the Politics of (In)Difference in Contemporary Hollywood: An Interview with Kimberly Peirce / Denise Mann; 16. Televising Difference: An Interview with Paris Barclay / Kevin Sandler Selected Bibliography, Chiara Ferrari; List of Contributors; Index

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