Different Visions, Revolutionary Perceptions: Race, Gender, and Sexuality in the Work of Contemporary Filmmakers

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Acknowledgments ix
4. Different Visions, Revolutionary Perceptions: Race, Gender, and Sexuality in the Work of Contemporary Filmmakers 1
5. Part 1 Exposing bodies
6. 1 Disability Is Us: Remembering, Recovering, and Remaking the Image of Disability 17
7. 2 “I Saw You Naked”: “Hard” Acting in “Gay” Movies 41
8. 3 Pain and Pleasure in the Flesh of Machiko Saito’s Experimental Movies 55
9. Part 2 Border visions
10. 4 Framing Identities / The Evolving Self: 75
11. 5 Indigenism, (In)Visibility: Notes on Migratory Film 95
12. 6 Traversing Cinematic Borders: An Interview with Paul Espinosa 119
13. Part 3 Global identities
14. 7 Del Otro Lado: 139
15. 8 Faith in Sexual Difference: 165
16. 9 Dead Conversations on Art and Politics: 187
17. Part 4 Independent ambitions
18. 10 Neither Color Blind, Nor Near-Sighted: 209
19. 11 Performing to Perform the Other: 223
20. 12 Cinematic Reservations: 247
21. Part 5 True Hollywood stories
22. 13 “And Maybe There Is a Way to Give Hollywood the Kick in the Ass That It Needs”: 263
23. 14 From Selena to Walkout: An Interview with Moctesuma Esparza 289
24. 15 Negotiating the Politics of (In)Difference in Contemporary Hollywood: 303
25. 16 Televising Difference: 323
26. Selected Bibliography 343
27. Contributors 357
28. Index 363